Fletchitzia picturata
No picture of Fletchitzia picturata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fletchitzia picturata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FletchitziaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Fletchitzia picturata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Molteno Formation · Stormberg Group6
- Molteno Formation1
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The named rock units Fletchitzia picturata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fletchitzia picturata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Fletchitzia picturata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Dicroidium7 sites
- Gymnospermopsida7 sites
- Pteridophyta7 sites
- Sphenobaiera7 sites
- Heidiphyllum6 sites
- Pteridopsida6 sites
- Taeniopteris6 sites
- Dordrechtites sp.5 sites
- Equisetum5 sites
- Fanerotheca5 sites
- Fraxinopsis5 sites
- Lepidopteris5 sites
- Rissikia5 sites
- Stachyopitys5 sites
- Yabeiella5 sites
- Kannaskopifolia sp.4 sites
- Muscites4 sites
- Peltaspermum4 sites
- Pteruchus4 sites
- Umkomasia4 sites
- Chiropteris3 sites
- Clariphyllum sp.3 sites
- Marchantites3 sites
- Pseudoctenis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Fletchitzia picturata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Triassische Insekten aus dem Karoo-Becken im südlichen Afrika4
- New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa2
- New and Little-Known Grylloblattids of the Family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fletchitzia picturata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fletchitzia picturata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fletchitzia picturata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFletchitzia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riek 1976