Protomyrmeleontidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 108 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 43 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 43 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 43 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 20 of 43 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 43 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous249–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences241–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–207 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 9 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 8 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 8 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya132.6 Mya249 Mya123 Mya

43 occurrences of Protomyrmeleontidae 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

43 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

11 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.56°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EHawkesbury Sandstone — 33.75°S, 151.25°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°W

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The named rock units Protomyrmeleontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protomyrmeleontidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protomyrmeleontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,728 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Protomyrmeleontidae, 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

20 references

Each of the 43 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Protomyrmeleontidae 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 itMoltenoptera through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Handlirsch 1906)