Afrohagla contorta
No picture of Afrohagla contorta 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 Afrohagla contorta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfrohaglaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Afrohagla contorta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- Molteno Formation · Stormberg Group3
- Molteno Formation1
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The named rock units Afrohagla contorta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Afrohagla contorta and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Afrohagla contorta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Dicroidium3 sites
- Equisetum3 sites
- Fanerotheca3 sites
- Gymnospermopsida3 sites
- Heidiphyllum3 sites
- Muscites3 sites
- Pteridophyta3 sites
- Pteridopsida3 sites
- Stachyopitys3 sites
- Taeniopteris3 sites
- Chiropteris2 sites
- Dordrechtites sp.2 sites
- Fletchitzia picturata2 sites
- Fraxinopsis2 sites
- Ginkgoites2 sites
- Lepidopteris2 sites
- Marchantites2 sites
- Peltaspermum2 sites
- Sphenobaiera2 sites
- Umkomasia2 sites
- Yabeiella2 sites
- Ademosyne speciosa1 site
- Antevsia1 site
- Avatia sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Afrohagla contorta, 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- Haglidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) aus der obertriassichen Molteno-Formation im südlichen Afrika2
- New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa1
- Upper Triassic Insects from the Molteno "Formation", South Africa1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Afrohagla contorta 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 Afrohagla contorta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Afrohagla contorta 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 itAfrohagla through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Riek 1974)