Prosbolidae

Scytoneura elliptica Martynov, 1935, a relative of Prosbolidae — not Prosbolidae itself

Not Prosbolidae. This is Scytoneura elliptica Martynov, 1935, a relative — both are Prosbolidae.

President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProsboloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 206 occurrencesPermian — about 202 of 206 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 206 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 206 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 206 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 206 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 206 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 206 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences302–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–276 Mya — about 4 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 76 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 75 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 3 occurrences260–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 36 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298.9 Mya165.3 Mya307 Mya152 Mya

206 occurrences of Prosbolidae 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

206 occurrences

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

20 formations

Iva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°ECroudace Bay — 33.02°S, 151.67°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EBaitugan — 55.89°N, 53.34°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.17°EEstcourt — 29.33°S, 30.00°EKazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.47°N, 87.30°EKazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.92°N, 87.25°EGramoteinskaya — 54.21°N, 86.90°EUskat — 53.92°N, 87.25°EUskat — 54.01°N, 87.35°ELeninskaya — 54.62°N, 86.13°ELeninskaya — 54.21°N, 86.90°ESalagou — 43.66°N, 3.20°ESalagou — 43.63°N, 3.27°EIrati — 30.14°S, 52.05°WLos Rastros — 29.08°S, 69.11°WRio do Rasto — 26.29°S, 50.89°WAlykaevskaya — 55.60°N, 86.02°ETersinskaya — 53.45°N, 87.31°EZijiachong — 28.00°N, 113.80°EHaifanggou — 41.47°N, 120.75°EBalfour — 31.92°S, 24.89°EAbrahamskraal — 32.62°S, 20.42°EPelitique — 43.32°N, 6.30°E

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The named rock units Prosbolidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prosbolidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Prosbolidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

842 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Prosbolidae, 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

25 references

Each of the 206 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. 13 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 Scytoneura elliptica Martynov, 1935

Source
GBIF
Credit
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Prosbolidae 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 itProsboloidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906