Lisca minuta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiscaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Lisca minuta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group12
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The named rock units Lisca minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lisca minuta and its relatives
PermianWhere Lisca minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Artinska clara8 sites
- Artinska ovata8 sites
- Lemmatophora typa8 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum7 sites
- Permopsylla americana7 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari6 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus6 sites
- Delopsocus latus6 sites
- Delopterum minutum6 sites
- Lecorium elongatum6 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum6 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum6 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis6 sites
- Phenopterum elongatum6 sites
- Protohymen permianus6 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus5 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta5 sites
- Protelytron permianum5 sites
- Protereisma latum5 sites
- Tupus permianus5 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis4 sites
- Misthodotes obtusus4 sites
- Parablattelytron elongatum4 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lisca minuta, 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
8 references- The Lower Permian insects of Kansas, Part 7: the Order Protoperlaria3
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria2
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 10: The new Order Protoperlaria: A study of the typical genus Lemmatophora (Sellards)2
- Artinska ovata (Sellards) and Paraprisca fragilis (Sellards) (Insecta: Polyneoptera: Lemmatophoridae) newly reported from the Lower Permian of Noble County, Oklahoma, with notes on Wellington Formation Lemmatophoridae1
- Raaschiidae (Grylloblattida: Protoperlina), a new insect family from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma1
- The Asthenohymen-Delopterum Bed, A New Leonardian Insect Horizon in the Wellington of Kansas and Oklahoma1
- Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. I. Teil1
- Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera1
Each of the 12 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 Lisca minuta
- 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 Lisca minuta 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 itLisca through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sellards 1909)