Liassophlebia
Robert F. Tomes · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- LiassophlebiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 192.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Liassophlebia 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
11 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
6 formations
- Blue Lias Formation · Lias Group2
- Lilstock Formation · Penarth Group2
- Insect Bed Formation1
- Westbury Shales Formation1
- Bayreuth Formation1
- White Lias Formation · Penarth Group1
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The named rock units Liassophlebia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liassophlebia and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Liassophlebia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Holcoptera schlotheimi4 sites
- Coleia barrovensis3 sites
- Coleopteron3 sites
- Bintoniella brodiei2 sites
- Gryllidae2 sites
- Hagla gracilis2 sites
- Holcoptera giebeli2 sites
- Odonata2 sites
- Orthophlebia liassica2 sites
- Pachymeridiidae2 sites
- Progonophlebia woodwardi2 sites
- Aeger brodiei1 site
- Asteroceras obtusum1 site
- Blattula incompleta1 site
- Brochocoleus maculatus1 site
- Campterophlebiidae1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Diademopsis serialis1 site
- Dorsettia laeta1 site
- Durnovaria parallela1 site
- Eoptychoptera spectra1 site
- Fulgoridiidae1 site
- Haglopsis parallela1 site
- Heterophlebia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Liassophlebia, 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- The British Liassic Dragonflies6
- A new Liassophlebiidae (Odonata: Heterophlebioidea) from strata close to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Somerset, UK1
- How to date a dragonfly: fossil calibrations for odonates1
- The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England1
- Fossil insects from the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset1
- Énumération des odonates fossiles d'Europe, in Revue des odonates ou libellules d'Europe1
Each of the 11 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 Liassophlebia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Robert F. Tomes
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liassophlebia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLiassophlebiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1925