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509 / Paleozoic
Tchirkovaea
Tchirkovaea guttata
Spotted wings and fine venation record Permian palaeodictyopteran diversity.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 280–272 million years ago
- Final stage
- Early Permian
- Geographic range
- Seasonal forest · Russia
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Tchirkovaea?
Tchirkovaea (Tchirkovaea guttata) was an extinct organism known from About 280–272 million years ago, with a range in Seasonal forest · Russia.
Life and ecology
It probably flew through seed-plant crowns and used a long mouthpart on plant tissues or spores.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Tchirkovaea disappear?
Permian insect and plant turnover is possible context; its record does not establish a specific cause of disappearance.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Tchirkovaea?
Wing fossils constrain pattern and venation; body proportions and diet remain comparative.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS