Nannochoristidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NannomecopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 154 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
31 occurrences of Nannochoristidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
31 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Daohugou Formation14
- Itat Formation4
- Karabastau Formation3
- Ichetuy Formation2
- Haifanggou Formation1
- Whitehill Formation · Ecca Group1
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The named rock units Nannochoristidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nannochoristidae and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Nannochoristidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,247 taxa- Limoniidae4 sites
- Aktassoblatta fusca3 sites
- Allaboilus gigantus3 sites
- Ampliceps furcitibia3 sites
- Anaxyelinae3 sites
- Ano ona3 sites
- Archirhyphus asiaticus3 sites
- Asioblatta punctata3 sites
- Asvab bavsa3 sites
- Belonotaris (Arnoldibelus) karatavicus3 sites
- Blattula brevicaudata3 sites
- Blattula microscopica3 sites
- Blattula rectinervosa3 sites
- Chuanblatta stalosa3 sites
- Decomposita triocella3 sites
- Distenorrhinus (Distenorrhinus) pallidirostris3 sites
- Falcatusiblatta casovec3 sites
- Falcatusiblatta karatavica3 sites
- Falcatusiblatta storozhenkoi3 sites
- Hirtaprosbole erromera3 sites
- Hydrokhoohydra aquabella3 sites
- Itaphlebia elegana3 sites
- Itaphlebia sharovi3 sites
- Latiblatta lativalvata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Nannochoristidae, 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
15 references- Novokshonov, 19976
- Two new species of Itaphlebia (Insecta, Mecoptera, Nannochoristidae) from the late Middle Jurassic of China4
- Revision and two new species of Itaphlebia (Nannochoristidae: Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China3
- Middle Jurassic Mesopanorpodidae from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta, Mecoptera)3
- Yurskie skorpionnitsy yuzhnoj Sibiri i zapadnoy Mongolii3
- Two new fossil species of Itaphlebia (Mecoptera: Nannochoristidae) from Jiulongshan Formation, Inner Mongolia, China2
- Middle Jurassic Nannochoristidae fossils from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia in China (Insecta, Mecoptera)2
- Additions to the Jurassic mecopteran assemblages from the Ordos and Jiyuan basins, north-central China1
- The Khasurty fossil insect Lagerstätte1
- New Jurassic scorpionflies of the families Orthophlebiidae and Nannochoristidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from Mongolia and Transbaikalia1
- Insecta1
- New Mesozoic scorpion flies (Nannochoristidae, Mecoptera) from Yakutia1
Each of the 31 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. 3 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 Nannochoristidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jacob Littlejohn
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nannochoristidae 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 itNannomecoptera through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1917