Spilapteridae

Spilapteridae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 326.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 46 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 21 of 67 occurrencesPermian328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 9 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 10 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 4 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 4 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.6 Mya274.4 Mya328 Mya266 Mya

67 occurrences of Spilapteridae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

67 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

20 formations

Commentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°ECarbondale — 41.31°N, 88.21°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WCarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WLekvorkuta — 67.77°N, 64.13°ELekvorkuta — 67.60°N, 64.05°ELekvorkuta — 68.60°N, 62.65°ELek-Vorkuta — 67.77°N, 64.13°EWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EKoshelevka — 57.80°N, 57.75°EFlöz Dreibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°EYanghugou — 37.44°N, 105.04°EZiegelschiefer — 51.48°N, 7.74°EKata — 61.58°N, 96.44°EIsaeva — 48.53°N, 38.49°EBursum — 34.84°N, 106.91°WAlykaevskaya — 55.47°N, 86.01°EKemerovskaya — 53.83°N, 86.74°EBreathitt — 37.14°N, 83.69°WSandersdorf — 51.60°N, 12.24°EFlöz Mittel — 52.32°N, 8.01°EInta — 67.77°N, 64.13°EPottsville — 40.63°N, 76.45°WBajtugan — 56.01°N, 52.70°E

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The named rock units Spilapteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spilapteridae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spilapteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

632 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Spilapteridae, 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

34 references

Each of the 67 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. 22 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 Spilapteridae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spilapteridae 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 itSpilapteroidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1894