Poroblattina rotundata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoroblattinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 300.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya.
24 occurrences of Poroblattina rotundata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
24 occurrences- Carboniferous75%
- Permian25%
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
- Ottweiler Stufe Formation8
- Conemaugh Formation6
- Menizla Formation4
- Maroon Formation3
- Cassville Shales Formation2
- Bursum Formation1
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The named rock units Poroblattina rotundata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Poroblattina rotundata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Poroblattina rotundata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
207 taxa- Poroblattina germari7 sites
- Spiloblattinidae5 sites
- Phyloblatta4 sites
- Archimylacridae3 sites
- Blattodea3 sites
- Phyloblatta flabellata3 sites
- Phyloblatta splendens3 sites
- Compsoblatta anaglyptica2 sites
- Compsoblatta nobilis2 sites
- Etoblattina2 sites
- Insecta2 sites
- Neorthroblattina albolineata2 sites
- Phyloblatta amabilis2 sites
- Phyloblatta occidentalis2 sites
- Phyloblattidae2 sites
- Syscioblatta dohrni2 sites
- Sysciophlebia euglyptica2 sites
- Xenoblatta russoma2 sites
- Acosmoblatta eakiniana1 site
- Acosmoblatta permacra1 site
- Amblyblatta lata1 site
- Ametroblatta strigosa1 site
- Amoeboblatta permanenta1 site
- Anthracoblattina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Poroblattina rotundata, 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
8 references- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV7
- Early elytrification of forewings of Palaeozoic cockroachoids: revision of the Carboniferous-Permian family Poroblattinidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) based on new finds from Morocco4
- Revision of American Paleozoic insects4
- Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms4
- Notes on Mesozoic Cockroaches2
- The Blattida (Insecta) fauna of Carrizo Arroyo, New Mexico-Biostratigraphic link between marine and nonmarine Pennsylvanian/Permian boundary profiles1
- Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaeozoischen Blattarien1
- New genera and species of fossil cockroaches, from the older American rocks1
Each of the 24 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 Poroblattina rotundata
- 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 Poroblattina rotundata 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 itPoroblattina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scudder 1885)