Threticus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsychodiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Threticus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Threticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Threticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Mastotermes electromexicus2 sites
- Psychodinae2 sites
- Bradysia1 site
- Calcaritermes vetus1 site
- Coptotermes sucineus1 site
- Cryptorhopalum electron1 site
- Cryptorhynchus1 site
- Entomobrya1 site
- Exechiini1 site
- Geratozygops durhami1 site
- Keroplatidae1 site
- Lepidocyrtus1 site
- Matuna bechlyi1 site
- Neomachilellus1 site
- Neoulosomus (Neoulosomus) hurdi1 site
- Plecia pristina1 site
- Trichomyia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Threticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Systematic and palaeoecology of Psychodidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Miocene Mexican amber2
- Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber1
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. 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 Threticus
- 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 Threticus 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 itPsychodini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eaton 1904