Tipula

Tipula is a very large insect genus in the fly family Tipulidae. The members of this genus are sometimes collectively called common crane flies. Tipula contains over 2,000 species located throughout the world.

Tipula

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
TipulinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 164 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 112 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 164 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 45 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 40 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–8.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.8–6.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–618 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences57.5 Mya2.58 Mya62 Mya618 ka

164 occurrences of Tipula on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

164 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

21 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WØlst — 56.84°N, 8.99°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°EØlst — 56.95°N, 8.91°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WCreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WFur — 56.90°N, 8.75°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EPaldau — 46.94°N, 15.81°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°W

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The named rock units Tipula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tipula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tipula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,677 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Tipula, 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

55 references

Each of the 164 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. 43 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 content2

Picture of Tipula

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tipula Tipula saginata · ETHZ:ENT:0576513

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 itTipulinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758