Holcoptera schlotheimi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolcopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 211.18 Mya to 192.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Holcoptera schlotheimi on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Lilstock Formation · Penarth Group4
- Blue Lias Formation · Lias Group2
- Cotham Formation · Pernarth Group1
- Argilliti di Riva di Solto Formation1
- Westbury Shales Formation1
- Portland Formation · Agawam Group1
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The named rock units Holcoptera schlotheimi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Holcoptera schlotheimi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Holcoptera schlotheimi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Orthophlebia liassica5 sites
- Hagla gracilis4 sites
- Odonata4 sites
- Bintoniella brodiei3 sites
- Coleia barrovensis3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Coleopteron3 sites
- Holcoptera giebeli3 sites
- Liassophlebia3 sites
- Phanerogramma heeri3 sites
- Gryllidae2 sites
- Haglopsis parallela2 sites
- Liassocicada ignotatus2 sites
- Megapolystoechus magnificus2 sites
- Omma liassicum2 sites
- Orthophlebia pictipennis2 sites
- Pachymeridiidae2 sites
- Protogryllus (Protogryllus) grandis2 sites
- Pseudotelephorus haueri2 sites
- Aeger brodiei1 site
- Anhydrophilus brodiei1 site
- Archaeopalinurus levis1 site
- Austaulius furcatus1 site
- Blattula incompleta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Holcoptera schlotheimi, 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- Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae) from England and the United States9
- Fossil insects from the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset2
- Insects from the Italian Upper Trias1
- The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England1
- British fossil insects1
- Die Insecten und Spinnen der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Insekten und Spinnen1
Each of the 15 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 Holcoptera schlotheimi
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Holcoptera schlotheimi 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 itHolcoptera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Giebel 1856)