Nematocera

The Nematocera are a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic, containing all flies except for those of the suborder Brachycera, which includes species such as the housefly or the common fruit fly. Thus, the equivalent clade to Nematocera would be the whole of Diptera, with Brachycera as a "subclade". Families in Nematocera include mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, black flies, and multiple families commonly known as midges.

Nematocera

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
Sits inside
DipteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 245 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1553 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 19 of 1553 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 10 of 1553 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 128 of 1553 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 52 of 1553 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 222 of 1553 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 178 of 1553 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 58 of 1553 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 1553 occurrencesEocene — about 691 of 1553 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 70 of 1553 occurrencesMiocene — about 108 of 1553 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 1553 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 1553 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 15 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 3 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 22 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 104 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 13 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 56 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 83 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 124 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 23 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 13 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 67 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 60 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 12 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 49 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 49 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 49 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 599 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 45 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 69 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 51 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences245.19 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

1,553 occurrences of Nematocera 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

1,553 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

101 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.86°N, 117.45°EGlushkovo — 53.74°N, 102.56°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.71°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EKhaya — 62.16°N, 118.60°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EØlst — 56.84°N, 8.99°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°EØlst — 56.95°N, 8.91°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ELaiyang — 37.02°N, 120.85°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.83°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.72°N, 7.17°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.90°N, 8.75°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.67°E

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The named rock units Nematocera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 700 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nematocera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nematocera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 381 sites for Nematocera, and this reads 240 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

364 references

Each of the 1,553 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. 352 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 Nematocera

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

No 3D scan of Nematocera 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Latreille 1825