Anelcana dilatata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnelcanaPBDB
- 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 6.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anelcana dilatata 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Anelcana dilatata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anelcana dilatata and its relatives
PermianWhere Anelcana dilatata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Apheloneura minutissima1 site
- Apsidoneura flexa1 site
- Artinska clara1 site
- Artinska ovata1 site
- Asthenohymen affinis1 site
- Asthenohymen dunbari1 site
- Caloneurodea1 site
- Chelopterum peregrinum1 site
- Delopsocus elongatus1 site
- Delopsocus latus1 site
- Delopterum minutum1 site
- Demopterum gracile1 site
- Dichentomum tinctum1 site
- Elmoa trisecta1 site
- Kansasoedischia maculata1 site
- Lecorium elongatum1 site
- Lemmatophora typa1 site
- Liomopterum ornatum1 site
- Liomopterum sellardsi1 site
- Lisca minuta1 site
- Martynovia protohymenoides1 site
- Meganisoptera1 site
- Misthodotes obtusus1 site
- Paleuthygramma acuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anelcana dilatata, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Anelcana dilatata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anelcana dilatata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnelcana through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1966)