Eoptychoptera simplex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EoptychopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Eoptychoptera simplex on record, most of them in the Early 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
10 occurrences- Early 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 Eoptychoptera simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eoptychoptera simplex and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Eoptychoptera simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
549 taxa- Panorpidium geinitzi5 sites
- Necrotaulius parvulus4 sites
- Panorpidium media4 sites
- Panorpidium minima4 sites
- Heterophlebia buckmani3 sites
- Heterothemis brodiei3 sites
- Mesobittacus minutus3 sites
- Neorthophlebia maculipennis3 sites
- Orthophlebia elongata3 sites
- Prohemerobius prodromus3 sites
- Actinophlebia2 sites
- Archegocimicidae2 sites
- Archibio mycetophilinus2 sites
- Archiconiopteryx liasina2 sites
- Archijassus heeri2 sites
- Archipleciomima germanica2 sites
- Archipsylla primitiva2 sites
- Archirhyphus geinitzi2 sites
- Architipula clara2 sites
- Bittacidae2 sites
- Blattula dubia2 sites
- Blattula langfeldti2 sites
- Caloblattina mathildae2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eoptychoptera simplex, 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
6 references- Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias3
- Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil2
- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV2
- Mecoptera and Diptera from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) deposits of Wolfsburg – Große Kley (Lower Saxony, Germany)1
- Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland)1
- Palaeontologie1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eoptychoptera simplex 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 Eoptychoptera simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoptychoptera simplex 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 itEoptychoptera through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906