Progoneura

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProgoneuridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Progoneura 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
11 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
2 formations
- Wellington Formation · Sumner Group10
- Belebeevo Formation1
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The named rock units Progoneura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Progoneura and its relatives
PermianWhere Progoneura and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Artinska clara3 sites
- Artinska ovata3 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari3 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum3 sites
- Kennedya mirabilis3 sites
- Lecorium elongatum3 sites
- Lemmatophora typa3 sites
- Lisca minuta3 sites
- Oligotypus tillyardi3 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis3 sites
- Permopsylla americana3 sites
- Protohymen permianus3 sites
- Apheloneura minutissima2 sites
- Archescytina kansasensis2 sites
- Archescytina permiana2 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis2 sites
- Asthenohymen apicalis2 sites
- Asthenohymen latus2 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus2 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus2 sites
- Delopterum minutum2 sites
- Ditaxineura anomalostigma2 sites
- Ditaxineura cellulosa2 sites
- Elmoa trisecta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Progoneura, 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
7 references- Lower Permian Insects from Oklahoma. Part 1. Introduction and the Orders Megasecoptera, Protodonata, and Odonata4
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria2
- New damselflies of the family Kennedyidae (Odonata) from the Permian of European Russia1
- Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the "Protozygopteran" grade1
- Notes on the Protodonata and Protozygoptera of the Lower Permian of Kansas1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 2: The Orders Paleodictyoptera, Protodonata and Odonata1
Each of the 11 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 Progoneura
- 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 Progoneura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProgoneuridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1931)