Kalligramma

Kalligramma is a prehistoric genus of winged insects in the family Kalligrammatidae.SpeciesKalligramma albifasciatum Yang et al., 2014 Kalligramma brachyrhyncha Yang et al., 2014 Kalligramma circularia Yang et al., 2014 Kalligramma delicatum Liu et al., 2015 Kalligramma elegans Yang et al., 2014 Kalligramma flexuosum Panfilov, 1968 Kalligramma haeckeli Walther, 1904 Kalligramma jurarchegonium Zhang and Zhang, 2003 Kalligramma liaoningense Ren and Guo, 1996 Kalligramma multinerve Panfilov, 1968 Kalligramma paradoxum Liu et al., 2014 Kalligramma sharovi Panfilov, 1968

Kalligramma

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 23 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 15 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya121.4 Mya166 Mya112 Mya

23 occurrences of Kalligramma on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

23 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

7 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EWadhurst Clay — 51.18°N, 0.27°E

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The named rock units Kalligramma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kalligramma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Kalligramma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Kalligramma, 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

16 references

Each of the 23 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Kalligramma

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kalligramma 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKalligrammatinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walther 1904