Locustopsis spectabilis
No picture of Locustopsis spectabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Locustopsis spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LocustopsisPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, herbivorePBDB, for Caelifera
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Caelifera
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Caelifera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Caelifera
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Caelifera
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.
4 occurrences of Locustopsis spectabilis 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
4 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
2 formations
- Charmouth Mudstone Formation · Lias Group2
- Lilstock Formation · Penarth Group1
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The named rock units Locustopsis spectabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Locustopsis spectabilis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Locustopsis spectabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Coleoptera2 sites
- Coleopteron2 sites
- Hagla gracilis2 sites
- Holcoptera giebeli2 sites
- Austaulius furcatus1 site
- Bintoniella brodiei1 site
- Blattula incompleta1 site
- Byrrhoidea1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Coleia barrovensis1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Curculionoidea1 site
- Daniilacheta aristovi1 site
- Dryopoidea1 site
- Elaterina liassica1 site
- Gryllidae1 site
- Haglopsis parallela1 site
- Holcoptera schlotheimi1 site
- Jurachorista bashkuevi1 site
- Liassocicada ignotatus1 site
- Liassophlebia1 site
- Liassophlebia withersi1 site
- Locustopsis bernstorffi1 site
- Locustopsis bucklandi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Locustopsis spectabilis, 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- The Locustopsidae and the phylogeny of the Acridodea (Orthoptera)2
- New and little known taxa of the order Orthoptera (Insecta) from the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of England1
- The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Locustopsis spectabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Locustopsis spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Locustopsis spectabilis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLocustopsis through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeuner 1942