Myopophlebia libera

Myopophlebia libera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyopophlebiaPBDB
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 most 1.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.7 Mya182.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Myopophlebia libera 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

7 occurrences

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

Posidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°E

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The named rock units Myopophlebia libera 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.

Myopophlebia libera and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Myopophlebia libera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Myopophlebia libera, 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

2 references

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Myopophlebia libera

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myopophlebia libera 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 itMyopophlebia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bode 1953