Permotanyderus

Permotanyderus is an extinct genus of protodipteran insect of the Permotanyderidae family, first described by Edgar F. Riek in Australia in 1953 and which contains a single species P. ableptus.

No picture of Permotanyderus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Permotanyderus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.64 Mya250.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Permotanyderus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

10 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

6 formations

Croudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°ECroudace Bay — 33.00°S, 151.68°EVokhma — 60.10°N, 45.51°EKhungtukun — 64.13°N, 101.26°EBugarikta — 64.34°N, 93.31°EMaltsevo — 54.40°N, 87.54°ESalarevo — 59.49°N, 38.50°E

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

Permotanyderus and its relatives

Permian

Where Permotanyderus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Permotanyderus, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Permotanyderus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Permotanyderus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPermotanyderinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

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