Scytinoptera sibirica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScytinopteraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scytinoptera sibirica on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scytinoptera sibirica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scytinoptera sibirica and its relatives
PermianWhere Scytinoptera sibirica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Climaconeurites asiaticus3 sites
- Kaltanospes kuznetskiensis3 sites
- Liomopterella vulgaris3 sites
- Palaeoperla prisca3 sites
- Altajopanorpa pilosa2 sites
- Boreopsocus2 sites
- Dasyleptus brongniarti2 sites
- Kaltanopsis ornata2 sites
- Kamopanorpa sibirica2 sites
- Liomopterites comans2 sites
- Megakhosaridae2 sites
- Parapermula sibirica2 sites
- Permocicada nigrita2 sites
- Permocupedidae2 sites
- Permonympha gracile2 sites
- Permosialis asiatica2 sites
- Petromantis kaltanica2 sites
- Petromantis karpenkoae2 sites
- Petromantis oreshnikovae2 sites
- Petromantis sarbalensis2 sites
- Sarbaloptera sarbalensis2 sites
- Scytinoptera kaltanica2 sites
- Scytinoptera kondomensis2 sites
- Scytinoptera maculatoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scytinoptera sibirica, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Scytinoptera sibirica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Scytinoptera sibirica 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 itScytinoptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Becker-Migdisova 1961