Syntonoptera schucherti

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SyntonopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Syntonoptera schucherti 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group3
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The named rock units Syntonoptera schucherti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Syntonoptera schucherti and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Syntonoptera schucherti and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Eucaenus ovalis3 sites
- Architarbus rotundatus2 sites
- Discotarbus deplanatus2 sites
- Eoctonus miniatus2 sites
- Eubleptus danielsi2 sites
- Pleurojulus biornatus2 sites
- Prochoroptera calopteryx2 sites
- Adeloblatta sellardsi1 site
- Adiphlebia lacoana1 site
- Amarixys gracilis1 site
- Ametretus laevis1 site
- Amousus mazonus1 site
- Amphibamus grandiceps1 site
- Amphicentrum orbiculare1 site
- Anegertus cubitalis1 site
- Anepitedius giraffa1 site
- Anthracoscorpio1 site
- Aphantomartus pustulatus1 site
- Apithanus jocularis1 site
- Archisymplectes rhothon1 site
- Architarbus minor1 site
- Arthrolycosa antiqua1 site
- Asemoblatta mazona1 site
- Asyncritus reticulatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Syntonoptera schucherti, 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
3 references- Review of the extinct family Syntonopteridae (order uncertain)1
- Carboniferous insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois1
- New Paleozoic insects from the vicinity of Mazon Creek, Illinois1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Syntonoptera schucherti
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Syntonoptera schucherti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSyntonoptera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1911