Strudiella devonica

Strudiella devonica is a species of extinct arthropod from the Devonian. It was recovered in the Strud environment from the Bois des Mouches Formation, Upper Famennian. It was originally described as the first complete Late Devonian terrestrial insect, but due to its poor state of preservation, its affinity is discussed.

Strudiella devonica

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Strudiella devonica on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

Evieux — 50.45°N, 5.06°E

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

Strudiella devonica and its relatives

Devonian

Where Strudiella devonica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Strudiella devonica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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

Media content1

Picture of Strudiella devonica

Credit
Ta-tea-two-te-to
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Strudiella devonica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStrudiella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garrouste et al. 2012