Prolystra lithographica
No picture of Prolystra lithographica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prolystra lithographica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlystraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Prolystra lithographica on record, most of them in the Late 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
11 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Prolystra lithographica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prolystra lithographica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Prolystra lithographica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Cymatophlebia longialata7 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri6 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia5 sites
- Tarsophlebia eximia5 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius4 sites
- Chresmoda obscura4 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia4 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus4 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila4 sites
- Locustopsis germari4 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis4 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri4 sites
- Pseudohydrophilus avitus4 sites
- Pycnophlebia speciosa4 sites
- Scarabaeides deperditus4 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei4 sites
- Actea sphinx3 sites
- Aeschnogomphus buchi3 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis3 sites
- Elcana lithophila3 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus3 sites
- Insecta3 sites
- Mesephemera prisca3 sites
- Mesephemera procera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Prolystra lithographica, 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- Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany and their phylogenetic significance4
- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV4
- Die Fossilien von Solhnofen1
- Die Insectenwelt des lithographischen Scheifers in Bayern1
- Varia zoologica et palaeontologica1
Each of the 11 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 Prolystra lithographica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prolystra lithographica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prolystra lithographica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProlystra through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppenheim 1888)