Phenopterum elongatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhenopterumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Phenopterum elongatum 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group8
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The named rock units Phenopterum elongatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phenopterum elongatum and its relatives
PermianWhere Phenopterum elongatum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Lisca minuta6 sites
- Artinska clara5 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus5 sites
- Delopsocus latus5 sites
- Delopterum minutum5 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum5 sites
- Lemmatophora typa5 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum5 sites
- Protereisma latum5 sites
- Artinska ovata4 sites
- Paleuthygramma acuta4 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum4 sites
- Permoberotha villosa4 sites
- Permopsylla americana4 sites
- Permoraphidia americana4 sites
- Probnis speciosa4 sites
- Protereisma arcuatum4 sites
- Protereisma permianum4 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis3 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari3 sites
- Chelopterum peregrinum3 sites
- Elmoa trisecta3 sites
- Lecorium elongatum3 sites
- Misthodotes obtusus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Phenopterum elongatum, 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
5 references- The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: the family Liomopteridae and its relatives3
- Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera2
- Raaschiidae (Grylloblattida: Protoperlina), a new insect family from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma1
- The Asthenohymen-Delopterum Bed, A New Leonardian Insect Horizon in the Wellington of Kansas and Oklahoma1
- Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten1
Each of the 8 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 Phenopterum elongatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phenopterum elongatum 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 itPhenopterum through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sellards 1909)