Elaterites

Elaterites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElateridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 293 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 28 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 5 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–243 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences306 Mya12.8 Mya330 Mya5 Mya

28 occurrences of Elaterites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

28 occurrences

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

8 formations

Carbondale — 40.00°N, 88.00°WSpoon — 40.00°N, 88.00°WPoole — 50.72°N, 1.88°WPoole — 50.65°N, 2.11°WPoole — 50.65°N, 2.06°WAshfield Shale — 34.09°S, 150.76°EAshfield Shale — 33.91°S, 151.19°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°W

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The named rock units Elaterites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaterites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Elaterites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

455 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Elaterites, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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 Elaterites

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 Elaterites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1847