Elcana lithophila
No picture of Elcana lithophila was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elcana lithophila, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanorpidiumPBDB
- 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 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.
6 occurrences of Elcana lithophila 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
6 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 Elcana lithophila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elcana lithophila and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Elcana lithophila and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Aeschnogomphus intermedius5 sites
- Chresmoda obscura5 sites
- Cymatophlebia longialata5 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia5 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus5 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia5 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila5 sites
- Mesephemera procera5 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis5 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri5 sites
- Pseudohydrophilus avitus5 sites
- Pycnophlebia speciosa5 sites
- Scarabaeides deperditus5 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei5 sites
- Tarsophlebia eximia5 sites
- Actea sphinx4 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri4 sites
- Nannogomphus bavaricus4 sites
- Pycnophlebia minor4 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis3 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica3 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus3 sites
- Insecta3 sites
- Locustopsis germari3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elcana lithophila, 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
5 references- Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology2
- Fossil insects from the Tithonian "Solnhofener Plattenkalke" in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna1
- Die Insectenwelt des lithographischen Scheifers in Bayern1
- Sur les Insectes fossiles du Calcaire Lithographique de la Bavière, qui se trouvent au Musée Teyler1
- Ueber die Neuropteren aus dem lithographischen Schiefer in Bayern1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Elcana lithophila was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elcana lithophila, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elcana lithophila 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPanorpidium through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Germar 1842)