Liomopteridae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrylloblattodeaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 64 million years on record.
The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 251.1 Mya.
174 occurrences of Liomopteridae 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
174 occurrences- Carboniferous1%
- Permian98%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
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
30 formations
- Mitina Formation37
- Koshelevka Formation22
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group17
- Letovice Formation16
- Iva-Gora Beds Formation8
- Amanak Formation7
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The named rock units Liomopteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liomopteridae and its relatives
PermianWhere Liomopteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,641 taxa- Artinska clara7 sites
- Lemmatophora typa7 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum6 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum6 sites
- Lisca minuta6 sites
- Artinska ovata5 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus5 sites
- Delopterum minutum5 sites
- Liomopterella vulgaris5 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta5 sites
- Paraprisca fragilis5 sites
- Permopsylla americana5 sites
- Phenopterum elongatum5 sites
- Protereisma arcuatum5 sites
- Protereisma latum5 sites
- Tillyardembia antennaeplana5 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis4 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari4 sites
- Climaconeurites asiaticus4 sites
- Dasyleptus brongniarti4 sites
- Delopsocus latus4 sites
- Glossopteris4 sites
- Kamopanorpa uralensis4 sites
- Lecorium elongatum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Liomopteridae, 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
48 references- Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina43
- Permian insects of Moravia. Part II - Liomopteridea15
- The Fauna of Grylloblattid Insects (Grylloblattida) of the Lower Permian Locality of Tshekarda12
- The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: the family Liomopteridae and its relatives10
- Grylloblattids of the Family Liomopteridae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) of the Upper Half of the Upper Permian9
- Important new insect fossils from Carrizo Arroyo and the Permo-Carboniferous faunal boundary7
- Permian fossil insects of north-east Europe: new Liomopterids (Grylloblattida, Liomopteridae and Phenopteridae)6
- Permian insects of the Vorkuta Group in the Pechora basin, and their stratigraphic implications5
- The first 'Grylloblattida' of the family Liomopteridae from the Middle Permian in the Onder Karoo, South Africa (Insecta: Polyneoptera)4
- Grylloblattidan insects from Sperbersbach and Cabarz (Germany), two new early Permian and insect-rich localities4
- New grylloblattids (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda region3
- New genus of the family Liomopteridae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from Lower Permian of Russia3
Each of the 174 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. 36 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 Liomopteridae
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No 3D scan of Liomopteridae 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 itGrylloblattodea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sellards 1909