Gerarina

No picture of Gerarina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gerarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TitanopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 301.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermian302–301 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300.9 Mya283.3 Mya301.9 Mya273.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Gerarina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

3 occurrences

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

Pospelovo — 43.05°N, 131.90°ELekvorkuta — 66.01°N, 57.54°E

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The named rock units Gerarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gerarina and its relatives

Permian

Where Gerarina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gerarina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gerarina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Gerarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gerarina 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.

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What may have been alongside itTitanoptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1885