Culex protorhinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CulexPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Culex protorhinus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group3
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The named rock units Culex protorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Culex protorhinus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Culex protorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
429 taxa- Aeolothrips jarzembowskii3 sites
- Anglogomphaeschna eocenica3 sites
- Aphidoidea3 sites
- Beraeodes vectensis3 sites
- Berosus barclayi3 sites
- Camponotites cockerelli3 sites
- Chironomidae3 sites
- Chironomini3 sites
- Colopha incognita3 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) brodiei3 sites
- Emplastus britannicus3 sites
- Emplastus hypolithus3 sites
- Gonomyia (Gonomyia) indecisa3 sites
- Gymnastes (Paragymnastes) fasciatipennis3 sites
- Hydrochara woodwardi3 sites
- Ichneumonidae3 sites
- Lepidoptera3 sites
- Leucotaphus gurnetensis3 sites
- Limnophila (Limnophila) cyclospila3 sites
- Limnophila (Limnophila) deleta3 sites
- Ochlerotatus protolepis3 sites
- Odontomyia brodiei3 sites
- Oecophylla megarche3 sites
- Plateumaris (Plateumaris) wightensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Culex protorhinus, 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- Oligocene mosquitoes in the British Museum, with a summary of our present knowledge concerning fossil Culicidae2
- British fossil insects1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Culex protorhinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Culex protorhinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCulex through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cockerell 1915