Qiyia jurassica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QiyiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Qiyia jurassica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Qiyia jurassica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Qiyia jurassica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Qiyia jurassica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
315 taxa- Allaboilus2 sites
- Cycloscytina gobiensis2 sites
- Jiania gracila2 sites
- Juroala daohugouensis2 sites
- Shuraboprosbole media2 sites
- Sigmaboilus2 sites
- Sunoprophalangopsis2 sites
- Aboilus perbellus1 site
- Aboilus stratosus1 site
- Abrocossus longus1 site
- Abrotoxyela curva1 site
- Allaboilus gigantus1 site
- Amnifleckia splendida1 site
- Anomopterella huangi1 site
- Anthoscytina brevineura1 site
- Anthoscytina elegans1 site
- Arbusella magna1 site
- Archipsylla sinica1 site
- Archirhagio striatus1 site
- Archirhagio varius1 site
- Archirhagio zhangi1 site
- Architipula chinensis1 site
- Architipula insolita1 site
- Architipula trichoclada1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Qiyia jurassica, 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- Extreme adaptations for aquatic ectoparasitism in a Jurassic fly larva2
- Expanding the Mesozoic record of early brachyceran fly larvae, including new larval forms with chimera-type morphologies1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Qiyia jurassica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Qiyia jurassica 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 itQiyia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 2014