Culicoides filipalpis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CulicoidesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
12 occurrences of Culicoides filipalpis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
12 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group7
- Raritan Formation · Potomac Group1
- Kheta Formation1
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The named rock units Culicoides filipalpis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Culicoides filipalpis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Culicoides filipalpis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Atriculicoides globosus9 sites
- Serphites paradoxus8 sites
- Culicoides tyrrelli6 sites
- Peronehelea chrimikalydia6 sites
- Atriculicoides5 sites
- Culicoides canadensis5 sites
- Heleageron arenatus5 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus5 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon vetus5 sites
- Archaeromma minutissimum4 sites
- Archaeromma nearcticum4 sites
- Baeomorpha ovatata4 sites
- Cretomiastor ferejunctus4 sites
- Culicoides obuncus4 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon remmi4 sites
- Baeomorpha dubitata3 sites
- Mesozoicaphis canadensis3 sites
- Adelohelea glabra2 sites
- Berothidae2 sites
- Canadaphis carpenteri2 sites
- Ceratopogonidae2 sites
- Cretaceogaster pygmaeus2 sites
- Cretocordylomyia quadriseries2 sites
- Culicoides annosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Culicoides filipalpis, 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
4 references- Borkent, 19959
- Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Canadian Cretaceous amber1
- Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey amber1
- Late Cretaceous biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from fossil resins of the Khatanga Depression1
Each of the 12 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 Culicoides filipalpis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Culicoides filipalpis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCulicoides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Remm 1976