Coptoclava

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoptoclavinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
33 occurrences of Coptoclava on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
33 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
15 formations
- Laiyang Formation10
- Jinju Formation · Shindong Group3
- Dabeigou Formation2
- Jiufotang Formation · Jehol Group2
- Dalazi Formation2
- Gidarinskaya Formation2
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The named rock units Coptoclava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coptoclava and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Coptoclava and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
512 taxa- Chironomaptera gregaria10 sites
- Mesolygaeus laiyangensis10 sites
- Ephemeropsis trisetalis3 sites
- Antemnacrassa incerta2 sites
- Brachysyntexis2 sites
- Chironomaptera karabonica2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Hemeroscopus baissicus2 sites
- Jingxidiscus lushangfenensis2 sites
- Lithoscarabaeus baissensis2 sites
- Notonecta xyphiale2 sites
- Proteroscarabaeus yeni2 sites
- Rhipidoblattina decoris2 sites
- Schizopteryx shandongensis2 sites
- Sinoblatta laiyangensis2 sites
- Vespina2 sites
- Aberrantochrysa buryatica1 site
- Aboilus1 site
- Aboilus khasurty1 site
- Alienopterus imposter1 site
- Alleremonomus xingi1 site
- Allopelecinus terpnus1 site
- Allopterus luianus1 site
- Alloraphidia asiatica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Coptoclava, 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
20 references- Beetles, Scarabaeida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya6
- Fossil insects from the Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province5
- Preliminary research on the aquatic coleopteran, Coptoclava from the Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation3
- New fossil insects of Laiyang Group from Laiyang basin, Shandong Province2
- The Jurassic fossil insects from western Liaoning2
- The first genus and species of Orthophlebiidae sensu stricto from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation of Northern China1
- The Khasurty fossil insect Lagerstätte1
- First record of adult Coptoclava longipoda Ping (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Laiyang, China1
- Yongjicaris zhejiangensis n. gen. n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Zhejiang Province, China1
- Pattern of Insect Burial and Conservation1
- First record of Ephemeropsis, Coptoclava, Coleoptera inc. sed. and Turfanograpta from Lower Cretaceous paper-shales of the western-most site of Mongolia1
- Early Cretaceous insects from the Dalazi Formation of the Zhixin basin, Jilin Province, China1
Each of the 33 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Coptoclava
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coptoclava 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 itCoptoclavinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ping 1928