Cercopyllis adolescens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CercopyllisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cercopyllis adolescens 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 Cercopyllis adolescens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cercopyllis adolescens and its relatives
PermianWhere Cercopyllis adolescens and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Archimylacridae1 site
- Cercopyllis delicatula1 site
- Cercopyllis justiciae1 site
- Dicladoblatta marginata1 site
- Distatoblatta persistens1 site
- Etoblattina1 site
- Insecta1 site
- Nearoblatta rotundata1 site
- Neorthroblattina albolineata1 site
- Phyloblatta1 site
- Poroblattina arcuata1 site
- Poroblattina germari1 site
- Poroblattina rotundata1 site
- Spiloblattina weissigensis1 site
- Spiloblattinidae1 site
- Spiloblattinidae gardinerana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cercopyllis adolescens, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cercopyllis adolescens
- 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 Cercopyllis adolescens 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 itCercopyllis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890