Permopsylla americana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PermopsyllaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Permopsylla americana 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
7 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Permopsylla americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Permopsylla americana and its relatives
PermianWhere Permopsylla americana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Artinska clara7 sites
- Lemmatophora typa7 sites
- Lisca minuta7 sites
- Artinska ovata6 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari6 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum6 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis6 sites
- Protohymen permianus6 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus5 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus5 sites
- Delopterum minutum5 sites
- Lecorium elongatum5 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum5 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta5 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum5 sites
- Protelytron permianum5 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis4 sites
- Delopsocus latus4 sites
- Parablattelytron elongatum4 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum4 sites
- Permoberotha villosa4 sites
- Permohymen schucherti4 sites
- Phenopterum elongatum4 sites
- Progonopsocus permianus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Permopsylla americana, 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
5 references- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria2
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera2
- The Asthenohymen-Delopterum Bed, A New Leonardian Insect Horizon in the Wellington of Kansas and Oklahoma1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas: Part 4. The Order Hemiptera, and additions to the Paleodictyoptera and Protohymenoptera1
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 9: The Order Hemiptera1
Each of the 7 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 Permopsylla americana
- 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 Permopsylla americana 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 itPermopsylla through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1926