Culicoidea

The Culicoidea are a superfamily within the order Diptera. The following families are included within the Culicoidea:Dixidae – meniscus midges Corethrellidae – frog-biting midges Chaoboridae – phantom midges Culicidae – mosquitoes

Culicoidea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 215 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 215 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 215 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 215 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 24 of 215 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 70 of 215 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 215 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 215 occurrencesEocene — about 66 of 215 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 215 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 215 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 215 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 215 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–189 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 7 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 9 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 10 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 48 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 11 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 14 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 50 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 13 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

215 occurrences of Culicoidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

215 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

51 formations

Gurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 48.45°N, 92.27°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WLaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 37.03°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ELaiyang — 37.01°N, 120.86°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.96°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EMogotuin — 44.12°N, 106.92°EGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EIchetuy — 51.72°N, 108.28°EIchetuy — 50.64°N, 105.43°EIchetuy — 50.78°N, 105.53°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGidarinskaya — 51.32°N, 119.55°EGidarinskaya — 52.15°N, 120.71°EBukukun — 49.44°N, 111.13°EBukukun — 49.70°N, 111.74°EUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EHotont — 47.37°N, 102.39°ETurginskaya — 50.01°N, 118.93°EMangutskaya — 51.73°N, 115.82°EMangutskaya — 50.08°N, 112.78°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.12°N, 101.65°EAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EJiufotang — 41.14°N, 119.74°E

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The named rock units Culicoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Culicoidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Culicoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

5,040 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Culicoidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

101 references

Each of the 215 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. 89 further references are 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 Culicoidea

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Alvesgaspar
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Culicoidea 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

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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 itCulicomorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meigen 1818