Scytinoptera

No picture of Scytinoptera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Scytinoptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 42 of 45 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 45 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 45 occurrencesLate Triassic284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 9 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 10 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 10 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 10 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–236 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya237 Mya284 Mya226 Mya

45 occurrences of Scytinoptera 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

45 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

10 formations

Mitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EBaitugan — 55.89°N, 53.34°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°ESheimo-Gora Beds — 65.54°N, 43.67°ELa Difunta — 26.38°N, 102.93°WKazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.92°N, 87.25°ETersinskaya — 53.45°N, 87.31°EUskat — 53.92°N, 87.25°E

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The named rock units Scytinoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scytinoptera and its relatives

Permian

Where Scytinoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

581 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Scytinoptera, 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

11 references

Each of the 45 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 content0

No picture of Scytinoptera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Scytinoptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scytinoptera 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 itScytinopteridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1904