Pronemobius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrylliniPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Pronemobius on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
22 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Pronemobius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pronemobius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pronemobius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Pteromogoplistes smithii10 sites
- Gryllinae8 sites
- Ectobius kohlsi6 sites
- Eneopterinae6 sites
- Eoerianthus eocaenicus6 sites
- Eoformica pinguis6 sites
- Eotetrix unicornis6 sites
- Cariblattoides labandeirai5 sites
- Dolichoderus kohlsi5 sites
- Eogryllus unicolor5 sites
- Pteromogoplistes4 sites
- Archimyrmex rostratus3 sites
- Eocaenonemonychini3 sites
- Eogryllus elongatus3 sites
- Eozacla problematica3 sites
- Lathrobium abscessum3 sites
- Lithopsis fimbriata3 sites
- Lystra richardsoni3 sites
- Sciomyza disjecta3 sites
- Sciomyza manca3 sites
- Anobium ovale2 sites
- Antherophagus priscus2 sites
- Aphaena rotundipennis2 sites
- Araneus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Pronemobius, 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
4 references- Eocene Orthoptera from Green River Formation of Wyoming (USA)17
- The Tertiary Insects of North America3
- Some Eocene Insects from Colorado and Wyoming1
- The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales1
Each of the 22 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 Pronemobius
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pronemobius 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 itGryllini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890