Estheria

Estheria is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

A picture published with the record for Estheria.

DidierFy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DiplostracaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda

Time the record covers

At least 260 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 29 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 29 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 29 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 29 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 29 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 29 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrences426–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–404 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences404–393 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences393–382 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–282 Mya — about 3 occurrences282–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–227 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences227–216 Mya — about 3 occurrences216–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences127–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382.31 Mya121.4 Mya426 Mya94 Mya

29 occurrences of Estheria on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

29 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

15 formations

Lower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.24°N, 6.99°EGres (et schists) de Wepion — 50.67°N, 4.13°EClarens — 29.12°S, 27.85°EWellington — 36.35°N, 97.43°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°WDe Geerdalen — 77.62°N, 14.98°EDe Geerdalen — 78.00°N, 21.87°EWaggoner Ranch — 33.67°N, 99.02°WWichita — 33.69°N, 99.03°WCerro Carnerero — 43.97°S, 69.52°WKoum — 8.34°N, 14.49°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EHuai Hin Lat — 16.77°N, 101.62°ELower Ottweiler Schichten — 49.36°N, 7.08°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.37°N, 7.18°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°E

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The named rock units Estheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Estheria and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Estheria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Estheria, 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

19 references

Each of the 29 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. 7 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 Estheria

Credit
DidierFy
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itDiplostraca through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruppell 1837