Protoscelis jurassica
No picture of Protoscelis jurassica 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 Protoscelis jurassica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoscelisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Protoscelis jurassica 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
8 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 Protoscelis jurassica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protoscelis jurassica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Protoscelis jurassica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
900 taxa- Ampliceps furcitibia8 sites
- Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) similis8 sites
- Aktassoblatta fusca7 sites
- Ano ona7 sites
- Archirhyphus asiaticus7 sites
- Asioblatta punctata7 sites
- Asvab bavsa7 sites
- Blattula brevicaudata7 sites
- Blattula microscopica7 sites
- Blattula rectinervosa7 sites
- Decomposita triocella7 sites
- Falcatusiblatta casovec7 sites
- Latiblatta lativalvata7 sites
- Liassothrips crassipes7 sites
- Memento mori7 sites
- Olzmasg zi7 sites
- Protoscelis longicornis7 sites
- Rhipidoblatta fusca7 sites
- Rhipidoblatta matriky7 sites
- Akinisia chorevei6 sites
- Ampliceps dubius6 sites
- Cameloblatta variegata6 sites
- Chuanblatta stalosa6 sites
- Codemus synaptoides6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protoscelis jurassica, 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
2 references- Review of the family Anthribidae (Coleoptera) from the Jurassic of Karatau: subfamily Protoscelinae. Genus Protoscelis Medvedev5
- Zhuki-Listoyedy Yury Karatau (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) [Jurassic leaf beetles of Karatau (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)]3
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 content0
No picture of Protoscelis jurassica 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 Protoscelis jurassica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoscelis jurassica 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 itProtoscelis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Medvedev 1968