Protomeropidae

Protomeropidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 32 of 33 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 33 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 6 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences316.9 Mya254.14 Mya320 Mya251 Mya

33 occurrences of Protomeropidae 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

33 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

8 formations

Koshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EKoshelevka — 57.77°N, 57.84°ELetovice — 49.46°N, 16.60°EAkkolka — 47.27°N, 85.40°ECroudace Bay — 33.00°S, 151.68°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WEstcourt — 29.80°S, 29.79°EPadochov — 49.99°N, 14.67°EMeisenheim — 49.74°N, 7.81°E

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The named rock units Protomeropidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protomeropidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Protomeropidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

762 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Protomeropidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 33 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 Protomeropidae

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtomeropina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1926