Protainophthalmus asperulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtainophthalmusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
17 occurrences of Protainophthalmus asperulus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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 Protainophthalmus asperulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protainophthalmus asperulus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Protainophthalmus asperulus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
283 taxa- Curculionidae7 sites
- Entimini7 sites
- Plecia bucklandi5 sites
- Plecia foersteri5 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus4 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio4 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana4 sites
- Plecia livida4 sites
- Rhytidoderes sexsulcatus4 sites
- Bibio3 sites
- Bibio curtisi3 sites
- Bibio curtisii3 sites
- Bibio spectabilis3 sites
- Cassida blancheti3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis3 sites
- Cydnus heeri3 sites
- Libellulidae3 sites
- Mycetophila confusa3 sites
- Plecia3 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides3 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus3 sites
- Acrididae2 sites
- Aphanus murchisonae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Protainophthalmus asperulus, 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- Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, deuxième partie, insectes fossiles d'Aix en Provence9
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France5
- Tertiary weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), identified from collections of the Senckenberg Museum1
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt1
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence1
Each of the 17 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protainophthalmus asperulus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protainophthalmus asperulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protainophthalmus asperulus 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 itProtainophthalmus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1856)