Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus
No picture of Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus 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 Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops)PBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Raritan Formation · Potomac Group2
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The named rock units Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Ambermantis wozniaki2 sites
- Atriculicoides globosus2 sites
- Glaesoconis nearctica2 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) curvachelus2 sites
- Sphecomyrma freyi2 sites
- Agraylea (Nanoagraylea)1 site
- Agraylea (Nanoagraylea) cretaria1 site
- Agraylea (Nanoagraylea) parva1 site
- Alautunmyia elongata1 site
- Amerogenia macrops1 site
- Apoglaesoconis ackermani1 site
- Apoglaesoconis cherylae1 site
- Apoglaesoconis luzzii1 site
- Apoglaesoconis swolenskyi1 site
- Araneinae1 site
- Archaeomarasmius leggetti1 site
- Archaeostephanus corae1 site
- Archaeromma carnifex1 site
- Archaeserropalpus cretaceus1 site
- Archichrysotus incompletus1 site
- Archicnephia ornithoraptor1 site
- Archimelzira americana1 site
- Atriculicoides incompletus1 site
- Aureophlebia sinitshenkovae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus, 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- Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey amber1
- Biting Midges from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey Amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus 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 Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLeptoconops (Leptoconops) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Borkent 1996