Locustopsis

Locustopsis is an extinct genus of grasshopper in the family Locustopsidae.

No picture of Locustopsis 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 Locustopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LocustopsidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, herbivorePBDB, for Caelifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Caelifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Caelifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Caelifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Caelifera

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 9 of 71 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 43 of 71 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 71 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 71 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 71 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous208–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 7 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 6 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 27 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 4 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 4 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence201.4 Mya119.57 Mya208 Mya111 Mya

71 occurrences of Locustopsis on record, most of them in the Early 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

71 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

13 formations

Lilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WLilstock — 51.19°N, 3.38°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°WSulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°ESagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°ETonsteinserie — 23.95°N, 25.34°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EYan'an — 36.63°N, 109.39°E

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The named rock units Locustopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Locustopsis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Locustopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Locustopsis, 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

26 references

Each of the 71 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. 14 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 content0

No picture of Locustopsis 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 Locustopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Locustopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLocustopsidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906