Conocephalella capito

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConocephalellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, herbivorePBDB, for Caelifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Caelifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Caelifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Caelifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Caelifera
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Conocephalella capito on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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 Conocephalella capito has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conocephalella capito and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Conocephalella capito and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Actea sphinx2 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius2 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis2 sites
- Chresmoda obscura2 sites
- Cymatophlebia longialata2 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia2 sites
- Ditomoptera minor2 sites
- Elcana lithophila2 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica2 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus2 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia2 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila2 sites
- Malmagrion eichstattensis2 sites
- Malmelater costeri2 sites
- Mesephemera procera2 sites
- Mesonepa minor2 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis2 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri2 sites
- Nannogomphus bavaricus2 sites
- Omma brevipes2 sites
- Osmylites excelsa2 sites
- Panorpidium phyllophora2 sites
- Procalosoma major2 sites
- Protolindenia antiqua2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Conocephalella capito, 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
2 references- Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology2
- Die Insecten aus dem lithographischen Schiefer1
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 Conocephalella capito
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConocephalella through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deichmüller 1886)