Opsiomylacris
Fayol, Henri · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- MylacridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 7.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 300.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
21 occurrences of Opsiomylacris 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
21 occurrences- Carboniferous33%
- Permian67%
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
10 formations
- Goldlauter Formation4
- Menizla Formation3
- Letovice Formation2
- Oberhof Formation2
- Tambach Formation · Rotliegend Group1
- Gehrener Schichten Formation1
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The named rock units Opsiomylacris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Opsiomylacris and its relatives
PermianWhere Opsiomylacris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Phyloblatta flabellata4 sites
- Phyloblatta3 sites
- Phyloblatta obliqua3 sites
- Phyloblatta praecurvata3 sites
- Phyloblattidae3 sites
- Anthracoblattina2 sites
- Anthracoblattina striata2 sites
- Phyloblatta disiuncta2 sites
- Phyloblatta occidentalis2 sites
- Sysciophlebia alligans2 sites
- Acitheca polymorpha1 site
- Acropermula acra1 site
- Alectoneura europaea1 site
- Alexahymen maruska1 site
- Amorphoblatta brongniarti1 site
- Anconeura havlatai1 site
- Ancoptera1 site
- Ancoptera permiana1 site
- Anhomalophlebia couloni1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer desguini1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer elegantissima1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer superba1 site
- Anthracoblattina ensifer trilineata1 site
- Anthracoblattina gigantea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Opsiomylacris, 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
9 references- Zur Entomofauna des Jungpalaozoikums der Boskovicer Furche (CSSR), Teil I: Mylacridae (Insecta, Blattodea)6
- Zur Entomofauna des Permokarbon: 1. Mylacridae (Blattodea) aus dem Unterrotliegenden (Unterperm, Autun) von Thüringen5
- First Permocarboniferous insects (blattids) from North Africa (Morocco) - implications on palaeobiogeography and palaeoclimatology3
- Zur Taxonomic and Biostratigraphic der Blattodea (Insecta) des Karbon und Perm der DDR2
- The first Carboniferous insects of the paleoforest of the Reyran basin (Esterel Massif, South of France) with palaeoenvironnemental notes1
- The Bromacker Quarry - the Most Important Locality of Lower Permian Terrestrial Vertebrate Fossils Outside of North America1
- Uber Mylacridenreste (Insecta) aus dem Unterrotliegenden von Thüringen1
- Insektenfunde aus den Goldlauterer Schichten des Thüringer Waldes1
- Nouvelles recherches sur les insectes du terrain houiller de Commentry (Allier) (Troisème partie) Orthoptères Blattidae1
Each of the 21 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 Opsiomylacris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Fayol, Henri
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMylacridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haupt 1952