Rhagionidae

Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies. They get their name from the similarity of their often prominent proboscis that looks like the beak of a snipe.

Rhagionidae

Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
Also called
snipe flyPBDB
Sits inside
TabanomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 7 of 121 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 121 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 35 of 121 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 121 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 121 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 121 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 121 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 121 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 4 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 11 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 17 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 8 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 5 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 29 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

121 occurrences of Rhagionidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

121 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

31 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°EUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°EKhaya — 62.16°N, 118.60°EKota — 19.33°N, 79.50°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EAbasheva — 54.50°N, 87.53°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WBakhar — 45.22°N, 99.17°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°E

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The named rock units Rhagionidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhagionidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhagionidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

4,107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Rhagionidae, 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

56 references

Each of the 121 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. 44 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 Rhagionidae

Credit
Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhagionidae 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

Licence
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 1802