Geinitzia

Searched as Geinitzia rigida. The Paleobiology Database treats Geinitzia as the accepted name.

Geinitzia is an extinct genus of flying insects belonging to the order Reculida and family Geinitziidae. Species belonging to the genus lived from the Permian to the Jurassic and have been found in China, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia.

No picture of Geinitzia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geinitzia itself, so it was not used. 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 Geinitzia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 9 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya168.6 Mya175.2 Mya164.8 Mya

9 occurrences of Geinitzia on record, most of them in the Middle 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

9 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

5 formations

Cloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WEller Beck — 54.30°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Geinitzia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Geinitzia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Geinitzia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Geinitzia, 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

2 references

Each of the 9 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

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No picture of Geinitzia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geinitzia itself, so it was not used.

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 Geinitzia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Geinitzia 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.

The description on this site

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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. Handlirsch 1906