Omma liassicum

Yan-Da Li, Di-Ying Huang, Chen‑Yang Cai · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- OmmaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
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.
6 occurrences of Omma liassicum on record. 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Omma liassicum 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.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Coleopteron3 sites
- Hagla gracilis3 sites
- Orthophlebia liassica3 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Holcoptera schlotheimi2 sites
- Phanerogramma heeri2 sites
- Protorthophlebia latipennis2 sites
- Anhydrophilus brodiei1 site
- Archicercopis1 site
- Bintoniella brodiei1 site
- Brodiola nana1 site
- Byrrhoidea1 site
- Campterophlebiidae1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Coleopteron aquaticus1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Curculionoidea1 site
- Diademopsis serialis1 site
- Dryopoidea1 site
- Elaterina liassica1 site
- Eospilopteron ornatum1 site
- Glaphyroptula anglica1 site
- Gryllidae1 site
- Hadrocephalus anglicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Omma liassicum, 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- Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera5
- The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England1
Each of the 6 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 Omma liassicum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Yan-Da Li, Di-Ying Huang, Chen‑Yang Cai
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Omma liassicum 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 itOmma through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crowson 1962