Orthophlebia

Orthophlebia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthophlebiinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 117 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 147 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 22 of 147 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 68 of 147 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 19 of 147 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 29 of 147 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 147 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous242–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 16 occurrences203–198 Mya — about 21 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 11 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 31 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 5 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 8 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 10 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 9 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 5 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 6 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237 Mya119.57 Mya242 Mya111 Mya

147 occurrences of Orthophlebia 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

147 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

34 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.71°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ELilstock — 51.99°N, 2.21°WLilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WBadaowan — 45.60°N, 84.90°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°ESulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°EJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EWhitby Mudstone — 52.01°N, 1.99°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.17°N, 119.25°EKushmurun — 52.45°N, 64.61°EKushmurun — 52.08°N, 66.06°EYangshuzhuang — 35.06°N, 112.48°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°EWhite Lias — 50.98°N, 2.96°WBlue Lias — 52.19°N, 1.79°WXishanyao — 44.45°N, 84.63°EHanshan — 31.74°N, 118.06°EZhargalant — 48.50°N, 92.80°EMakarova — 55.97°N, 92.71°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°W

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The named rock units Orthophlebia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthophlebia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Orthophlebia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,559 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Orthophlebia, 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

40 references

Each of the 147 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Orthophlebia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Orthophlebia 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 itOrthophlebiinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westwood 1845