Geinitzia

Searched as Geinitzia sp.. 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 183 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 55 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 55 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 55 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 55 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 55 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 55 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences264–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 5 occurrences206–199 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–185 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 11 occurrences177–170 Mya — about 8 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 6 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266.9 Mya83.6 Mya279 Mya62 Mya

55 occurrences of Geinitzia 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

55 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

24 formations

Cloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°ESaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WMilk River — 49.17°N, 111.87°WMilk River — 49.07°N, 111.59°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 113.52°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WBlack Creek — 35.38°N, 77.99°WBlack Creek — 35.35°N, 78.02°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WSagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°ETuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WMcRae — 33.13°N, 107.25°WEller Beck — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°ENishina Kayama — 34.20°N, 131.30°ESalaryovo — 60.76°N, 46.38°EGerennavar Limestone — 48.08°N, 20.45°ELingbuzong — 29.92°N, 90.83°EA2 subunit — 45.95°N, 0.90°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°ELoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°WIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EZechstein — 50.92°N, 9.55°EWhitby Mudstone — 52.01°N, 1.99°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. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geinitzia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Geinitzia and its relatives were recorded in the Early 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

27 references

Each of the 55 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. 15 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

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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