Cryptochironomus
Cryptochironomus is a genus of nonbiting midges in the family Chironomidae. There are more than 80 described species in Cryptochironomus.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChironominiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cryptochironomus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Cryptochironomus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cryptochironomus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
308 taxa- Candona neglecta3 sites
- Chironomus3 sites
- Glyptotendipes3 sites
- Limnephilidae3 sites
- Pisidium casertanum3 sites
- Potamogeton3 sites
- Ranunculus3 sites
- Bembidion2 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) balli2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Candona2 sites
- Candona candida2 sites
- Chironomidae2 sites
- Cyclocypris2 sites
- Dicrotendipes2 sites
- Fossaria2 sites
- Gyraulus2 sites
- Heterocypris2 sites
- Hippuris vulgaris2 sites
- Isoetes lacustris2 sites
- Limnocythere2 sites
- Orthocladiinae2 sites
- Patrobus septentrionis2 sites
- Phryganeidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cryptochironomus, 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
2 references- A diverse late-glacial (Mackinaw Phase) biota from Leamington, Ontario2
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 3 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 Cryptochironomus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cryptochironomus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChironomini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kieffer 1918