Ephemeropsis

Ephemeropsis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 56 of 57 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 20 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 8 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence143.1 Mya121.4 Mya149.9 Mya112.5 Mya

57 occurrences of Ephemeropsis 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

57 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

22 formations

Turga — 50.83°N, 116.19°ETurga — 50.70°N, 118.40°ETurga — 50.81°N, 116.14°ETurga — 51.54°N, 118.34°ETurga — 51.90°N, 115.93°ETurga — 50.46°N, 117.36°ETurga — 51.26°N, 115.90°ETurga — 53.21°N, 118.06°ETurga — 50.55°N, 116.40°ETurga — 51.34°N, 118.69°ETurga — 50.36°N, 118.79°ETurga — 50.35°N, 115.45°EYixian — 42.06°N, 121.75°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EYixian — 41.57°N, 120.49°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.12°N, 101.65°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EMangutskaya — 51.73°N, 115.82°EChijinbao — 39.97°N, 97.80°EHuashidianzi — 41.75°N, 125.40°EHuashidianzi — 41.69°N, 126.23°EAndaikhudag — 44.75°N, 101.87°EJianshangou — 41.62°N, 120.99°ELeskovskaya — 51.70°N, 116.93°EMirsanovo — 52.04°N, 116.63°EBukachacha — 52.99°N, 116.92°EKutinskaya — 50.12°N, 116.68°ETurginskaya — 50.04°N, 118.99°EGlushkovo — 52.00°N, 116.00°EGidarinskaya — 51.57°N, 118.40°EYantang — 29.92°N, 118.51°EHuajiying — 40.37°N, 116.36°EHuliugou — 41.35°N, 107.33°EDashatan — 42.15°N, 125.54°EYingcheng — 44.40°N, 126.19°ELongjiang — 48.60°N, 123.98°E

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The named rock units Ephemeropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ephemeropsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ephemeropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

358 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Ephemeropsis, 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

24 references

Each of the 57 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. 11 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 Ephemeropsis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ephemeropsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1864