Panorpoidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanorpiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 234 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
309 occurrences of Panorpoidea on record, most of them in the Early 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
309 occurrences- Middle Triassic5%
- Late Triassic8%
- Early Jurassic34%
- Middle Jurassic11%
- Late Jurassic18%
- Early Cretaceous7%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Eocene14%
- Oligocene1%
- Mioceneunder 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
63 formations
- Daohugou Formation30
- Dzhil Formation22
- Posidonia Shale Formation13
- Karabastau Formation11
- Badaowan Formation10
- Klondike Mountain Formation10
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The named rock units Panorpoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Panorpoidea and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Panorpoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
5,548 taxa- Orthophlebia liassica14 sites
- Orthophlebiidae11 sites
- Coleoptera10 sites
- Odonata9 sites
- Orthoptera8 sites
- Panorpidium geinitzi8 sites
- Heterophlebia buckmani7 sites
- Orthophlebia elenae7 sites
- Panorpidium minima7 sites
- Procramptonomyia kovalevi7 sites
- Protorthophlebia latipennis7 sites
- Coleopteron6 sites
- Eoptychoptera simplex6 sites
- Eorpa ypsipeda6 sites
- Heterothemis brodiei6 sites
- Juraphlebia eugeniae6 sites
- Limoniidae6 sites
- Mesobaetis sibirica6 sites
- Necrotaulius parvulus6 sites
- Orthophlebia extensa6 sites
- Ampliceps furcitibia5 sites
- Araneae5 sites
- Archirhyphus asiaticus5 sites
- Archizelmira kazachstanica5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 163 sites for Panorpoidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
76 references- Materialy po evolyutsii Mecoptera22
- Jurassic scorpionflies (Mecoptera) with swollen first metatarsal segments suggesting sexual dimorphism19
- Yurskie skorpionnitsy yuzhnoj Sibiri i zapadnoy Mongolii17
- Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil17
- The Panorpoid complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias16
- New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA)14
- The Eocene apex of panorpoid scorpionfly family diversity13
- Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias13
- Scorpion flies, Panorpida in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya11
- Mesozoic Insects of Orthophlebiidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China10
- Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera8
- New mecopteran insects from the Middle Jurassic Yangshuzhuang Formation of Jiyuan Basin, China7
Each of the 309 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. 64 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 Panorpoidea
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- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Kevmin
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Panorpoidea 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 itPanorpini through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.