Boletina

Boletina is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Mycetophilidae. There are at least 30 described species in Boletina.

Boletina

Janet Graham · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GnoristinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 17 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.0–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45.9 Mya3.6 Mya52 Mya2 Mya

28 occurrences of Boletina on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

28 occurrences

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

7 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°E

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The named rock units Boletina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Boletina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Boletina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Boletina, 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

Each of the 28 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 Boletina

Credit
Janet Graham
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Boletina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGnoristinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Staeger 1840