Dicranoptycha electrina
No picture of Dicranoptycha electrina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dicranoptycha electrina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicranoptychaPBDB
- 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 Dicranoptycha electrina 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.
Dicranoptycha electrina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dicranoptycha electrina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,401 taxa- Archankothrips varicornis2 sites
- Atyphohelea cothurnata2 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus2 sites
- Bradoponera meieri2 sites
- Ceratopogon eminens2 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis2 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti2 sites
- Culicoides speciosus2 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa2 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata2 sites
- Dolichoderus cornutus2 sites
- Dolichoderus mesosternalis2 sites
- Dolichoderus sculpturatus2 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius2 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) longirostris2 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus2 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei2 sites
- Eocenomyrma rugosostriata2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) piriformis2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) turbinata2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula2 sites
- Formica flori2 sites
- Fossihelea gracilitarsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dicranoptycha electrina, 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
3 references- Dicranoptycha crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene)1
- Limoniidae (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (in the collection of the Museum of the Earth in Warsaw) Part 1. Subfamily Limoniinae1
- Crane-flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera)1
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 content0
No picture of Dicranoptycha electrina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dicranoptycha electrina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dicranoptycha electrina 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 itDicranoptycha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alexander 1931