Cheilosia

Cheilosia is a genus of hoverfly. Most Cheilosia are black or largely un-coloured, lacking the bright colours and patterns of many hoverfly species. It is one of the most species diverse genera of hoverflies. The biology of many species is little understood, but where known, the larvae of Cheilosia species feed in the stems of plants or in fungi.

Cheilosia

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
hoverflyPBDB
Sits inside
CheilosiinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 16 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45.9 Mya27.3 Mya51.7 Mya22.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Cheilosia 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

19 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

4 formations

Green River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.79°N, 109.07°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°E

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The named rock units Cheilosia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheilosia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cheilosia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,817 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cheilosia, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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 Cheilosia

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cheilosia 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 itCheilosiina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meigen 1822