Cyttaromyia fenestrata

Cockerell, T; Byram, John · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- Sits inside
- CyttaromyiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cyttaromyia fenestrata 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
2 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
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The named rock units Cyttaromyia fenestrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyttaromyia fenestrata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cyttaromyia fenestrata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Asilus palaeolestes1 site
- Bembidium exoletum1 site
- Camponotites vetus1 site
- Carabites eocenicus1 site
- Carabites exanimus1 site
- Chironomidae1 site
- Cicindelopsis eophilus1 site
- Cyttaromyia fuscula1 site
- Dicranomyia primitiva1 site
- Dicranomyia rostrata1 site
- Dicranomyia stigmosa1 site
- Diptera1 site
- Eobracon cladurus1 site
- Eoformica pinguis1 site
- Epiphanis deletus1 site
- Gnoriste dentoni1 site
- Laccophilus1 site
- Leistotrophus patriarchicus1 site
- Lithadothrips vetustus1 site
- Muscidae1 site
- Mythicomyiidae1 site
- Nemotelus eocenicus1 site
- Oxygonus mortuus1 site
- Pachymerus petrensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cyttaromyia fenestrata, 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- Eocene Insects from the Rocky Mountains1
- The First Discovered Traces of Fossil Insects in the American Tertiaries1
Each of the 2 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 Cyttaromyia fenestrata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cockerell, T; Byram, John
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cyttaromyia fenestrata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyttaromyia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1877