Mesopanorpodes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesopsychidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 237 Mya.
4 occurrences of Mesopanorpodes on record, most of them in the Middle 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
4 occurrences- Permian25%
- Middle Triassic75%
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
3 formations
- Yanchang Formation2
- Vokhma Formation1
- Ashfield Shale Formation · Wianamatta Group1
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The named rock units Mesopanorpodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesopanorpodes and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Mesopanorpodes and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Adelidium cordatum1 site
- Allochorista erdosensis1 site
- Artematopodites lozowskii1 site
- Cathayiblatta longata1 site
- Chauliodites kitshmengensis1 site
- Chauliodites nedubrovensis1 site
- Chauliodites sennikovi1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Ctenobittacus tongchuanensis1 site
- Dinoharpalus latus1 site
- Dracaphis angustata1 site
- Elateridium angustius1 site
- Erdosia pectinata1 site
- Forcinerva tongchuanensis1 site
- Hongchoristites martinsoni1 site
- Ladinochorista lata1 site
- Ladinoglosselytron martynovae1 site
- Longifurcula hejiafangensis1 site
- Mesochorista conjunctiva1 site
- Metrorhynchites grandis1 site
- Nedubrovia mostovskii1 site
- Neorthophlebopsis qishuiheensis1 site
- Notoblattites mitchelli1 site
- Notoblattites wianamattensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesopanorpodes, 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
4 references- Midtriassic species of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Shaanxi, China1
- An Early Triassic scorpionfly (Panorpida = Mecoptera) of the Vologda Region1
- Middle Triassic new fossils of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, China1
- Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell1
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 Mesopanorpodes 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 Mesopanorpodes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesopanorpodes 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMesopsychidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1918