Prochoristella

No picture of Prochoristella 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 Prochoristella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 14 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 9 of 24 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–239 Mya — about 4 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.902 Mya201.4 Mya256 Mya173 Mya

24 occurrences of Prochoristella on record. 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

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°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EEstcourt — 29.33°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.80°S, 29.79°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EXiaofengmidingzi — 43.40°N, 125.93°E

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The named rock units Prochoristella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Prochoristella, 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

10 references

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 content0

No picture of Prochoristella 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 Prochoristella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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

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What may have been alongside itMesopsychidae through timeThe world it lived on

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