Tupus permianus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TupusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tupus permianus 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
5 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
1 formation
- Wellington Formation · Cimarron Group5
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The named rock units Tupus permianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tupus permianus and its relatives
PermianWhere Tupus permianus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Artinska clara5 sites
- Artinska ovata5 sites
- Dichentomum tinctum5 sites
- Lemmatophora typa5 sites
- Lisca minuta5 sites
- Asthenohymen dunbari4 sites
- Asthenohymen pusillus4 sites
- Delopsocus elongatus4 sites
- Delopterum minutum4 sites
- Lecorium elongatum4 sites
- Liomopterum ornatum4 sites
- Parablattelytron rectum4 sites
- Permopsocus latipennis4 sites
- Permopsylla americana4 sites
- Protohymen permianus4 sites
- Archescytina kansasensis3 sites
- Archescytina permiana3 sites
- Asthenohymen affinis3 sites
- Ditaxineura anomalostigma3 sites
- Kennedya mirabilis3 sites
- Lithopsocidium permianum3 sites
- Misthodotes obtusus3 sites
- Parablattelytron subincisum3 sites
- Paraprisca fragilis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tupus permianus, 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
5 references- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera1
- The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 2: The Orders Paleodictyoptera, Protodonata and Odonata1
- Kansas Permian Insects, Part 5: The Orders Protodonata and Odonata1
- Types of Permian insects, part I - Odonata1
Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Tupus permianus
- 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 Tupus permianus 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 itTupus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sellards 1906)