Mesosciophilidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NematoceraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
33 occurrences of Mesosciophilidae on record, most of them in the Early 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
33 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
9 formations
- Daohugou Formation12
- Yixian Formation5
- Zaza Formation3
- Karabastau Formation3
- Turga Formation2
- Itat Formation2
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The named rock units Mesosciophilidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesosciophilidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mesosciophilidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,420 taxa- Orthophlebiidae4 sites
- Staphylinidae4 sites
- Karataviella brachyptera3 sites
- Aktassoblatta fusca2 sites
- Allaboilus gigantus2 sites
- Annulaphis rasnitsyni2 sites
- Araneae2 sites
- Archirhyphus asiaticus2 sites
- Archizelmira kazachstanica2 sites
- Aristoviblattogryllus minor2 sites
- Baissomantis maculata2 sites
- Bellicimbrophlebia cruciata2 sites
- Bellicimbrophlebia disvena2 sites
- Brachysyntexis2 sites
- Cicadocoris anisomeridis2 sites
- Cretophotina tristriata2 sites
- Drepanorzeckia plana2 sites
- Ellinaphis sensoriata2 sites
- Eobelus longipes2 sites
- Epimesoplecia elenae2 sites
- Hydraenidae2 sites
- Juraxymyia fossilis2 sites
- Jurochauliodes ponomarenkoi2 sites
- Kalligramma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Mesosciophilidae, 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
17 references- New fossil mesosciophilids (Diptera: Nematocera) from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of western Liaoning, China5
- Three new species of Mesosciophilid gnats from the Middle-Late Jurassic of China (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera: Mesosciophilidae)3
- Dipterans (Mesosciophilidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaykal3
- Two new species of Paramesosciophilodes (Diptera, Nematocera, Mesosciophilidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China2
- A new genus with two new species of mesosciophilids from the Middle Jurassic of China (Diptera: Nematocera: Mesosciophilidae)2
- Two new species of Mesosciophilidae (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) from the Yanliao biota of Inner Mongolia, China2
- A new fossil genus of Mesosciophilidae (Diptera, Nematocera) with two new species from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China2
- New mesosciophilid gnats (Insecta: Diptera: Mesosciophilidae) in the Daohugou biota of Inner Mongolia, China2
- Diptera, Muscida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya2
- Bibionomorpha and Asilomorpha2
- Evolyutsiya kryla i filogenez dlinnousykh dvukrylykh Oligoneura (Diptera, Nematocera)2
- The Khasurty fossil insect Lagerstätte1
Each of the 33 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. 5 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
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No picture of Mesosciophilidae 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 Mesosciophilidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesosciophilidae 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 itNematocera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rohdendorf 1946)