Mycetophilidae

Mycetophilidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciaroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 141 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 557 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 127 of 557 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 557 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 557 occurrencesEocene — about 263 of 557 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 73 of 557 occurrencesMiocene — about 53 of 557 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 557 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 557 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–120 Mya — about 25 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 68 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 27 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 17 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 35 occurrences48–43 Mya — about 12 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 198 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 16 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 44 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 18 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 25 occurrences14–9.6 Mya — about 20 occurrences9.6–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences139.1 Mya11.7 ka144 Mya0 Mya

557 occurrences of Mycetophilidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

557 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

41 formations

Zaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 38.80°N, 108.25°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WNaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EKheta — 71.63°N, 100.97°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WTadushi — 44.26°N, 135.30°ERedbank Plains — 27.66°S, 152.88°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°W

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The named rock units Mycetophilidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 271 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mycetophilidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mycetophilidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,351 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 134 sites for Mycetophilidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

101 references

Each of the 557 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. 89 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

Media content1

Picture of Mycetophilidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mycetophilidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newman 1834