Atriculicoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtriculicoidinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
36 occurrences of Atriculicoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
36 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.
Found in
6 formations
- Kheta Formation9
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group8
- Raritan Formation · Potomac Group3
- Escucha Formation2
- Las Penosas Formation1
- Dolgan Formation1
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The named rock units Atriculicoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Atriculicoides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Atriculicoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
749 taxa- Culicoides filipalpis10 sites
- Peronehelea chrimikalydia7 sites
- Culicoides tyrrelli6 sites
- Serphites paradoxus6 sites
- Culicoides canadensis5 sites
- Heleageron arenatus5 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus5 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon vetus5 sites
- Archaeromma minutissimum4 sites
- Archaeromma nearcticum4 sites
- Baeomorpha ovatata4 sites
- Cretomiastor ferejunctus4 sites
- Culicoides obuncus4 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon remmi4 sites
- Adelohelea glabra3 sites
- Araneoidea3 sites
- Baeomorpha dubitata3 sites
- Berothidae3 sites
- Culicoides3 sites
- Huttoniidae3 sites
- Protoisotoma3 sites
- Ambaraphis costalis2 sites
- Ambermantis wozniaki2 sites
- Aphytocerus communis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Atriculicoides, 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
13 references- Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae)8
- Borkent, 19958
- Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Canadian Cretaceous amber5
- Biting midges of the extinct genus Protoculicoides Boesel from Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just, Spain and new synonymy in recently described fossil genera (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)2
- Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey amber2
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of France2
- Late Cretaceous biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from fossil resins of the Khatanga Depression2
- Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber2
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Early Cretaceous El Soplao amber (N Spain)1
- Additional biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Burmese amber1
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Burmese amber, Myanmar1
- Biting Midges from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey Amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)1
Each of the 36 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. 1 further reference is 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 Atriculicoides
- 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 Atriculicoides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAtriculicoidinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Remm 1976