Nannogomphus bavaricus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NannogomphusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nannogomphus bavaricus 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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 Nannogomphus bavaricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nannogomphus bavaricus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Nannogomphus bavaricus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Actea sphinx4 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius4 sites
- Chresmoda obscura4 sites
- Cymatophlebia longialata4 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia4 sites
- Elcana lithophila4 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus4 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia4 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila4 sites
- Mesephemera procera4 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis4 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri4 sites
- Pseudohydrophilus avitus4 sites
- Pycnophlebia minor4 sites
- Pycnophlebia speciosa4 sites
- Scarabaeides deperditus4 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei4 sites
- Tarsophlebia eximia4 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis3 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica3 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus3 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri3 sites
- Omma brevipes3 sites
- Osmylites excelsa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nannogomphus bavaricus, 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
3 references- Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology2
- Fossil insects from the Tithonian "Solnhofener Plattenkalke" in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna1
- Les agrionides fossiles des Musées de Munich et de Haarlem1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Nannogomphus bavaricus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Nannogomphus bavaricus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNannogomphus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906