Protomyrmeleon

Protomyrmeleon

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · 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
ProtomyrmeleontinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous207–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences202–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 8 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 5 occurrences152–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201.4 Mya132.6 Mya207 Mya124 Mya

27 occurrences of Protomyrmeleon on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

27 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

6 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°W

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The named rock units Protomyrmeleon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protomyrmeleon and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protomyrmeleon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,415 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protomyrmeleon, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 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 Protomyrmeleon

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protomyrmeleon 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 itProtomyrmeleontinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geinitz 1888