Sciaroidea

Sciaroidea is a superfamily in the infraorder Bibionomorpha. There are about 16 families and more than 15,000 described species in Sciaroidea. Most of its constituent families are various gnats.

Sciaroidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
fungus gnatPBDB
Sits inside
BibionomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 5 of 1291 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 1291 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 1291 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 72 of 1291 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 161 of 1291 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 93 of 1291 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1291 occurrencesEocene — about 634 of 1291 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 128 of 1291 occurrencesMiocene — about 153 of 1291 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 1291 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 1291 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 6 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–162 Mya — about 8 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 30 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 32 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 12 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 9 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 93 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 46 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 9 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 48 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 10 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 23 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–54 Mya — about 16 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 73 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 14 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 544 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 111 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 91 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 63 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

1,291 occurrences of Sciaroidea 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

1,291 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

73 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 38.80°N, 108.25°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WKheta — 71.63°N, 100.97°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EKheta — 72.03°N, 101.33°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EIchetuy — 52.05°N, 108.76°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 41.03°N, 0.56°WItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WNaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WKishenehn — 48.38°N, 113.68°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°W

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The named rock units Sciaroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 741 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciaroidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sciaroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,683 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 273 sites for Sciaroidea, 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

219 references

Each of the 1,291 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. 207 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 Sciaroidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sciaroidea 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.

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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What may have been alongside itBibionomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billberg 1820