Gerarus danielsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerarusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Gerarus danielsi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group5
- Farrington Formation1
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The named rock units Gerarus danielsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gerarus danielsi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gerarus danielsi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Eubleptus danielsi3 sites
- Gerarus vetus3 sites
- Lithoneura mirifica2 sites
- Adiaphtharsia ferrea1 site
- Adiphlebia lacoana1 site
- Aenigmatodes danielsi1 site
- Alanympha richardsoni1 site
- Amarixys stellaris1 site
- Amynilyspes wortheni1 site
- Anthrakoris aetherius1 site
- Aphantomartus pustulatus1 site
- Architarbus rotundatus1 site
- Asemoblatta danielsi1 site
- Belotelson magister1 site
- Bizarrea obscura1 site
- Carbonympha herdinai1 site
- Curculioides gigas1 site
- Curculioides mcluckiei1 site
- Eoscorpius carbonarius1 site
- Etotabla gillae1 site
- Eubrodia dabasinskasi1 site
- Eucaenus ovalis1 site
- Euproops danae1 site
- Hadentomum americanum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gerarus danielsi, 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
3 references- Studies on Upper Carboniferous insects: 1. The Geraridae (Order Protorthoptera)4
- New basal neopterans from Writhlington (UK, Pennsylvanian)1
- Revision of American Paleozoic insects1
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 content1
Picture of Gerarus danielsi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gerarus danielsi 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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What may have been alongside itGerarus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906