Pterygota

Pterygota

H. Morin · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
winged insectPBDB
Sits inside
ParanotaliaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 326.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 633 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1986 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 22 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 487 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 451 of 12000 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 997 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 145 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1053 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1396 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 692 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 196 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 2060 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 845 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 938 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 72 of 12000 occurrences333–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–311 Mya — about 128 occurrences311–300 Mya — about 453 occurrences300–289 Mya — about 328 occurrences289–278 Mya — about 621 occurrences278–267 Mya — about 703 occurrences267–256 Mya — about 121 occurrences256–245 Mya — about 376 occurrences245–233 Mya — about 464 occurrences233–222 Mya — about 159 occurrences222–211 Mya — about 94 occurrences211–200 Mya — about 170 occurrences200–189 Mya — about 178 occurrences189–178 Mya — about 718 occurrences178–167 Mya — about 104 occurrences167–156 Mya — about 265 occurrences156–144 Mya — about 864 occurrences144–133 Mya — about 160 occurrences133–122 Mya — about 457 occurrences122–111 Mya — about 723 occurrences111–100 Mya — about 97 occurrences100–89 Mya — about 312 occurrences89–78 Mya — about 211 occurrences78–67 Mya — about 152 occurrences67–56 Mya — about 214 occurrences56–44 Mya — about 600 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 1484 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 823 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 789 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 229 occurrences323.6 Mya11.7 ka333 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Pterygota on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 417 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EWellington — 38.64°N, 97.21°WWellington — 36.51°N, 97.32°WWellington — 36.35°N, 97.30°WWellington — 36.90°N, 97.38°WWellington — 36.50°N, 97.44°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 52.03°N, 10.29°EPosidonia Shale — 52.05°N, 10.13°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.89°EPosidonia Shale — 48.63°N, 9.51°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°EGreen River — 42.00°N, 107.00°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 39.35°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 38.80°N, 108.25°WGreen River — 42.58°N, 109.94°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.62°N, 108.01°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 108.72°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.12°S, 39.76°WCrato — 7.22°S, 39.27°WMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EYixian — 42.06°N, 121.75°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.70°N, 120.50°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EYixian — 41.33°N, 119.13°EYixian — 41.38°N, 116.28°EYixian — 40.91°N, 117.92°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.53°N, 121.10°EYixian — 42.04°N, 116.63°EYixian — 41.80°N, 116.52°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ECroudace Bay — 33.00°S, 151.68°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°EKoshelevka — 57.37°N, 57.23°EKoshelevka — 57.42°N, 57.27°EKoshelevka — 57.77°N, 57.84°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EZaza — 53.20°N, 112.82°EZaza — 53.17°N, 111.77°ECarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.78°N, 88.15°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.26°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WCarbondale — 41.26°N, 88.23°WCarbondale — 39.93°N, 87.70°WCarbondale — 40.05°N, 87.57°WCarbondale — 39.97°N, 87.58°WCarbondale — 40.40°N, 90.80°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 10.96°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.54°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WWeald Clay — 50.83°N, 0.43°EWeald Clay — 51.10°N, 0.45°WWeald Clay — 51.22°N, 0.07°WWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WWeald Clay — 51.17°N, 0.30°WLetovice — 49.46°N, 16.60°ELetovice — 49.46°N, 16.00°E

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The named rock units Pterygota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 393 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,575 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

7,315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 528 sites for Pterygota, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

at least 1,880 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,868 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

Media content1

Picture of Pterygota

Credit
H. Morin
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pterygota 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brauer 1885)