Panesthia

Panesthia is a large genus of burrowing giant cockroaches in the subfamily Panesthiinae. Species of the genus are subsocial and are mainly found in Southeast Asia, coastal East Asia, Australasia, and Indo-Malaysia.

Panesthia

Len Worthington · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PanesthiinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.6 Mya132.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Panesthia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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

Ping Chau — 22.55°N, 114.43°E

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The named rock units Panesthia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Panesthia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Panesthia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Panesthia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content2

Picture of Panesthia

Credit
Len Worthington
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tunosemi
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPanesthiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Audinet-Serville 1831