Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudopolycentropodesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Cow Branch Formation · Dan River Group2
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The named rock units Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Leehermania prorova2 sites
- Alinka cara1 site
- Anthophyta1 site
- Apatopus1 site
- Archescytinidae1 site
- Architipula youngi1 site
- Argyrarachne solitus1 site
- Blattodea1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Brachyrhyphus distortus1 site
- cf. Achrostichites linnaeafolius1 site
- cf. Compostrobus neotericus1 site
- cf. Himeriella sp.1 site
- Cionichthys1 site
- Crosaphis virginiensis1 site
- Cyathofoma sp.1 site
- Dictyophyllum1 site
- Diplurus newarki1 site
- Diptera1 site
- Elatocladus1 site
- Franxinopsis sp.1 site
- Grallator1 site
- Grallator tuberosus1 site
- Heteroptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus, 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
2 references- Leehermania prorova, the earliest staphyliniform beetle, from the Late Triassic of Virginia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)1
- Revision of the bizarre Mesozoic scorpionflies in the Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecopteroidea)1
Each of the 2 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 Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudopolycentropodes through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grimaldi and Fraser 2005