Plecia pictipennis
No picture of Plecia pictipennis 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 Plecia pictipennis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleciaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Plecia pictipennis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Allenby Formation · Princeton Group8
- Tranquille Formation · Kamloops Group1
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The named rock units Plecia pictipennis 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.
Plecia pictipennis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Plecia pictipennis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Plecia reducta5 sites
- Plecia avus4 sites
- Penthetria fryi3 sites
- Plecia curtula3 sites
- Plecia transitoria3 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Plecia canadensis2 sites
- Plecia tulameenensis2 sites
- Acer wehri1 site
- Aphrophora angusta1 site
- Aves1 site
- Elateridae1 site
- Etoptychoptera tertiaria1 site
- Microphor defunctus1 site
- Plecia cairnesi1 site
- Plecia elatior1 site
- Plecia kelownaensis1 site
- Plecia minutula1 site
- Plecia nana1 site
- Plecia pulchra1 site
- Plecia pulla1 site
- Plecia similkameena1 site
- Telmatrechus defunctus1 site
- Tipula tulameena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Plecia pictipennis, 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
2 references- Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe6
- Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia5
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Plecia pictipennis 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 Plecia pictipennis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plecia pictipennis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlecia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Handlirsch 1910)