Gerarus fischeri
No picture of Gerarus fischeri 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 Gerarus fischeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerarusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Gerarus fischeri on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gerarus fischeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gerarus fischeri and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gerarus fischeri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Amorphoblatta brongniarti2 sites
- Anthracoblattina gigantea2 sites
- Blattodea2 sites
- Caloneura dawsoni2 sites
- Ctenoptilus elongatus2 sites
- Diaphanoptera munieri2 sites
- Dictyomylacris insignis2 sites
- Fouquea lacroixi2 sites
- Grylloblattodea2 sites
- Meganeura monyi2 sites
- Mischoptera nigra2 sites
- Palaeocixius antiquus2 sites
- Phyloblatta gaudryi2 sites
- Sthenarocera pachytyloides2 sites
- Anhomalophlebia couloni1 site
- Anthracoblattina1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer desguini1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer elegantissima1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer superba1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer trilineata1 site
- Anthracoblattina gigantea pretiosa1 site
- Anthracoblattina striata1 site
- Anthracoptilus perrieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gerarus fischeri, 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
6 references- Revision sommaire des insectes fossiles du Stéphanien de Commentry3
- Studies on Upper Carboniferous insects: 1. The Geraridae (Order Protorthoptera)1
- Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten1
- Nouveaux insectes du Stéphanien de Commentry (cinquième note)1
- Nouveaux Paléodictyoptères et Protorthoptères de Stéphanien de Commentry1
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques1
Each of the 8 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 Gerarus fischeri 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 Gerarus fischeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gerarus fischeri 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 itGerarus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1885)