Panorpidium

Panorpidium is an extinct genus of orthopteran insect within the Elcanidae family, described by Westwood in 1854.

Panorpidium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElcaninaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 174 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 126 of 174 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 174 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 20 of 174 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 174 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 174 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–200 Mya — about 6 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 103 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 11 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 6 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 12 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 4 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 6 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201.4 Mya100.5 Mya208 Mya92 Mya

174 occurrences of Panorpidium 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

174 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

15 formations

Posidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.75°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.03°N, 10.29°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 49.00°N, 11.70°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WWeald Clay — 50.83°N, 0.43°EWeald Clay — 51.10°N, 0.45°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EBlue Lias — 52.19°N, 1.79°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLilstock — 52.06°N, 2.14°WJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EShiti — 24.46°N, 111.50°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EJinju — 35.13°N, 128.10°E

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The named rock units Panorpidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panorpidium and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

3,195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Panorpidium, 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

28 references

Each of the 174 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. 16 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 Panorpidium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Panorpidium 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.

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 itElcaninae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westwood 1854