Probnis speciosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProbnisPBDB
- 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.
13 occurrences of Probnis speciosa 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
13 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
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group13
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The named rock units Probnis speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Probnis speciosa and its relatives
PermianWhere Probnis speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Artinska clara5 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus4 sites
- Delopterum minutum4 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum4 sites
- Lemmatophora typa4 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum4 sites
- Lisca minuta4 sites
- Phenopterum elongatum4 sites
- Protereisma latum4 sites
- Protereisma permianum4 sites
- Artinska ovata3 sites
- Delopsocus latus3 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta3 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum3 sites
- Permoberotha villosa3 sites
- Permoblattina curta3 sites
- Permopsylla americana3 sites
- Permoraphidia americana3 sites
- Phyloblatta curvata3 sites
- Protereisma arcuatum3 sites
- Tupus permianus3 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis2 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari2 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Probnis speciosa, 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
6 references- Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera8
- The Asthenohymen-Delopterum Bed, A New Leonardian Insect Horizon in the Wellington of Kansas and Oklahoma1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 9. The orders Neuroptera, Raphidiodea, Caloneurodea and Protorthoptera (Probnisidae), with additional Protodonata and Megasecoptera1
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 19: The Order Protoperlaria (cont'd): The Family Probnisidae1
- Fossil insects from the Lower Permian of Kansas1
- Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten1
Each of the 13 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 Probnis speciosa
- 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 Probnis speciosa 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 itProbnis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sellards 1909