Fannia
Fannia is a very large genus of approximately 288 species of flies. The genus was originally described by the French entomologist Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830. A number of species were formerly placed in the genus Musca.
Rui Andrade · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- FanniidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Fannia on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Fannia and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fannia and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Cochliomyia macellaria1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Dermestes maculatus1 site
- Fissurella1 site
- Larus1 site
- Mytilus1 site
- Necrobia rufipes1 site
- Otaria byronia1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Tegula1 site
- Tineola bisselliella1 site
- Trophon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fannia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Massive death of pinnipeds 1200 years ago: Taphonomic history of the “Lobos site” (Golfo Nuevo, Patagonia, Argentina)1
- Fannia scalaris Fabricius, eine rezente Art im Baltischen Bernstein?1
- Insektenreste aus der Hallstattzeit1
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 content1
Picture of Fannia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Rui Andrade
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fannia 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFanniidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robineau-Desvoidy 1830