Ironomyiidae
Ironomyiidae is a small family of flies in the order Diptera. Historically, they had been included in the family Platypezidae, and includes three extant species within the single extant genus Ironomyia endemic to Australia and a number of extinct fossil genera from North America and Asia extending back to the Early Cretaceous.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- ironic flyPBDB
- Sits inside
- PlatypezoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
40 occurrences of Ironomyiidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
40 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Zaza Formation17
- Dzun-Bain Formation · Bon Tsaagan Group8
- Ola Formation7
- Laiyang Formation2
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The named rock units Ironomyiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ironomyiidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ironomyiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
812 taxa- Ellinaphidinae10 sites
- Caudaphis angustivola7 sites
- Ellinaphis longistigma7 sites
- Ellinaphis cubocrassa6 sites
- Caudaphis5 sites
- Palaecomoptera longimedia5 sites
- Prospeolepta trapezia5 sites
- Rallotopaphis antennata5 sites
- Annulaphis mostovskini4 sites
- Caudaphis vulgata4 sites
- Drepanorzeckia extrunculipennis4 sites
- Ellinaphis4 sites
- Ellinaphis curta4 sites
- Ellinaphis incognita4 sites
- Ellinaphis mirabila4 sites
- Ellinaphis sensoriata4 sites
- Ellinaphis truncata4 sites
- Palaeopetia armata4 sites
- Parnasos pessimus4 sites
- Proplatypeza amabilis4 sites
- Saltissus eskovi4 sites
- Zazicia innuba4 sites
- Caudaphis brevicrura3 sites
- Caudaphis modica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Ironomyiidae, 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
6 references- New taxa of Ironomyiidae (Diptera, Phoromorpha) from the Cretaceous of Siberia and Mongolia32
- Basal Cyclorrhapha in amber from the Cretaceous and Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), and their relationships: Brachycera in Cretaceous amber part IX4
- The first Ironomyiidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber provides insights into the phylogeny of Phoroidea (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)1
- Sinolestinae, an early Cretaceous new subfamily of Platypezidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province1
- Four new genera of Platypezidae1
- A fossil ironomyiid fly from Canadian amber (Diptera: Ironomyiidae)1
Each of the 40 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
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No picture of Ironomyiidae 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 Ironomyiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ironomyiidae 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.
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What may have been alongside itPlatypezoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McAlpine and Martin 1966