Protereisma insigne

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtereismaPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Protereisma insigne 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
4 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
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The named rock units Protereisma insigne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protereisma insigne and its relatives
PermianWhere Protereisma insigne and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Artinska clara4 sites
- Artinska ovata4 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari4 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus4 sites
- Lemmatophora typa4 sites
- Lisca minuta4 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum4 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis4 sites
- Permopsylla americana4 sites
- Protelytron permianum4 sites
- Protohymen permianus4 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus3 sites
- Delopterum minutum3 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum3 sites
- Kennedya mirabilis3 sites
- Lecorium elongatum3 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta3 sites
- Parablattelytron elongatum3 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum3 sites
- Permohymen schucherti3 sites
- Tupus permianus3 sites
- Archescytina kansasensis2 sites
- Archescytina permiana2 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protereisma insigne, 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
3 references- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria2
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera1
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 15: The Order Plectoptera (continued)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Protereisma insigne
- 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 Protereisma insigne 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 itProtereisma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1932