Muscidae

Muscidae are a family of flies found in the superfamily Muscoidea.

Muscidae

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL 1.2 · 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
Also called
house flyPBDB
Sits inside
CalyptrataePBDB
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 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 13 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–5.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.7–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences45.9 Mya11.7 ka52 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Muscidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

4 formations

Green River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°E

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The named rock units Muscidae 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.

Muscidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Muscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Muscidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content2

Picture of Muscidae

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Peter_TR
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCalyptratae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802