Orthocladiinae

Orthocladiinae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
ChironomidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 126 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 126 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 126 occurrencesEocene — about 93 of 126 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 126 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 126 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 126 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 64 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

126 occurrences of Orthocladiinae 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

126 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

10 formations

Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EPomahaka — 46.01°S, 169.24°EChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WSkarðsströnd–Mókollsdalur — 65.51°N, 21.53°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WHarudi — 23.72°N, 68.84°E

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The named rock units Orthocladiinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthocladiinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orthocladiinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Orthocladiinae, 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

25 references

Each of the 126 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. 13 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 Orthocladiinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Orthocladiinae 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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What may have been alongside itChironomidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lenz 1921