Tipulinae

Tipulinae is a subfamily of crane flies. It contains the typical crane flies from the genus Tipula.

Tipulinae

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
TipulidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 146 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 220 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 220 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 220 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 220 occurrencesEocene — about 119 of 220 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 220 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 220 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 220 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 220 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 16 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 11 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 9 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 14 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 15 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 84 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences149.2 Mya2.58 Mya158 Mya0 Mya

220 occurrences of Tipulinae 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

220 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

32 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WØlst — 56.84°N, 8.99°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°EØlst — 56.95°N, 8.91°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WPaskapoo — 52.33°N, 113.74°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°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WRott — 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°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.79°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WKyndal — 50.82°N, 132.70°EHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°E

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The named rock units Tipulinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tipulinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tipulinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Tipulinae, 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

75 references

Each of the 220 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. 63 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 Tipulinae

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

No 3D scan of Tipulinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802