Ptomascopus aveyronensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtomascopusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptomascopus aveyronensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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.
Ptomascopus aveyronensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ptomascopus aveyronensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Blatta1 site
- Braconidae1 site
- Coptera anka1 site
- Cypselavus gallicus1 site
- Dorcadion bachense1 site
- Megaselia1 site
- Palaeortona quercyensis1 site
- Palaeosilpha fraasii1 site
- Phoridae1 site
- Protosilvestria sculpta1 site
- Spiniphora1 site
- Staphylinidae1 site
- Thanatophilus1 site
- Tineidae1 site
- Xenomorphia handschini1 site
- Xenomorphia resurrecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptomascopus aveyronensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Insekten aus den Phosphoriten des Quercy2
- Ueber zwei fossile Silphiden (Coleoptera) aus den Phosphoriten von Caylux1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Ptomascopus aveyronensis 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 Ptomascopus aveyronensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptomascopus aveyronensis 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 itPtomascopus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flach 1890