Protopleciidae

No picture of Protopleciidae 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 Protopleciidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 24 of 58 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 58 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 23 of 58 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 58 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 3 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 7 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 7 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 4 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 6 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 6 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 6 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192.9 Mya121.4 Mya203 Mya111 Mya

58 occurrences of Protopleciidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

58 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

13 formations

Dzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EGlushkovo — 53.74°N, 102.56°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EDabeigou — 42.25°N, 117.79°EShiti — 24.46°N, 111.50°EXiguayuan — 41.17°N, 117.97°E

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The named rock units Protopleciidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protopleciidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Protopleciidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,636 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Protopleciidae, 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

21 references

Each of the 58 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. 9 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

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No picture of Protopleciidae 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 Protopleciidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protopleciidae 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 itMycetophiloidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rohdendorf 1946