Permochoristidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MecopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 112 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 165.3 Mya.
341 occurrences of Permochoristidae 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
341 occurrences- Permian89%
- Middle Triassic7%
- Late Triassic3%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 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
30 formations
- Iva-Gora Beds Formation90
- Koshelevka Formation29
- Mitina Formation26
- Kazankovo-Markinskaya Formation24
- Croudace Bay Formation · Newcastle Coal Measures Group23
- Madygen Formation19
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The named rock units Permochoristidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Permochoristidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Permochoristidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,658 taxa- Petromantis rossica16 sites
- Agetopanorpa ornata11 sites
- Mesochorista australica9 sites
- Euthygramma parallellum8 sites
- Permosialis paucinervis8 sites
- Petromantis maculipennis8 sites
- Permocicadopsis aberrans7 sites
- Petromantis robusta7 sites
- Scytinoptera reducta7 sites
- Agetopanorpa6 sites
- Agetopanorpa dubia6 sites
- Agetopanorpa fasciata6 sites
- Eukuloja cubitalis6 sites
- Jurina marginata6 sites
- Olgaephilus emendatus6 sites
- Permithonopsis ivensis6 sites
- Permocicada nigronervosa6 sites
- Prosbolopsis ovalis6 sites
- Scytoneura elliptica6 sites
- Boreopsocus danksae5 sites
- Coleoptera5 sites
- Kamopanorpa rotundipennis5 sites
- Liomopterella vulgaris5 sites
- Martynopanorpa angustata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Permochoristidae, 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
48 references- Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina75
- Materialy po evolyutsii Mecoptera73
- Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part I. The order Mecoptera30
- New and little known Permian scorpion flies (Insecta, Mecoptera = Panorpida) of the family Agetopanorpidae from Perm and Arkhangel'sk oblasts20
- New Triassic Scorpionflies (Insecta, Mecoptera)17
- Permian scorpion flies (Insecta, Panorpida) of the family Permochoristidae14
- Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales12
- New Permochoristidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Isady locality7
- Upper Permian insects of New South Wales Part II. The orders Mecoptera, Paramecoptera and Neuroptera7
- Scorpion Flies of the Family Permochoristidae, the Closest Common Ancestors of Extant Scorpion Flies (Insecta, Panorpida-Mecoptera)6
- Permskie Mecoptera iz Chekardy i Kargaly6
- Novye nasekomye iz Permskikh i Mezozoiskikh otlozhenii SSSR5
Each of the 341 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. 36 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 Permochoristidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Permochoristidae 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 itMecoptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1918