Scytinoptera mexicana

Scytinoptera mexicana

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Scytinoptera mexicana 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

1 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

1 formation

La Difunta — 26.38°N, 102.93°W

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The named rock units Scytinoptera mexicana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Scytinoptera mexicana and its relatives

Permian

Where Scytinoptera mexicana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Scytinoptera mexicana, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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Picture of Scytinoptera mexicana

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No 3D scan of Scytinoptera mexicana 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter and Miller 1937