Toxorhina
Toxorhina is a genus of crane fly belonging to the family Limoniidae. They can be found in various places such as the United States and China.

Mike Ostrowski Depicted place: Sarasota County, FL, USA ( 27°19′31″N 82°25′58″W / 27.3252876122°N 82.432877645°W / 27… · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- LimoniinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Toxorhina on record. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Toxorhina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
2,325 taxa- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata4 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) longirostris4 sites
- Macrochile spectrum4 sites
- Palaeopoecilostola longicornis4 sites
- Palaeopoecilostola speciosa4 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini4 sites
- Archaeotinodes exarata3 sites
- Archaeotinodes grossa3 sites
- Arctogephyra agilis3 sites
- Beraeodes pectinatus3 sites
- Brachycentrus labialis3 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta3 sites
- Corynoptera klebsii3 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) vetusta3 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius3 sites
- Electrochyliza succini3 sites
- Electrotrichia subtilis3 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) pulchella3 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei3 sites
- Erotesis aequalis3 sites
- Formica flori3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Helicopsyche typica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Toxorhina, and this reads all of them. 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
9 references- New finding of Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) limoniid fly in Eocene Baltic amber and the biogeographical context of the genus3
- Crane-flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera)2
- New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber1
- A catalogue of the collections of Mexican amber at the Natural History Museum, London and National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK1
- The taxonomy of selected genera of the subfamily Limoniinae (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene), with notes on their phylogeny1
- New crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber1
- Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) caucasiensis, a new species from the Middle Miocene of Stavropol (northern Caucasus, USSR) (Diptera, Limoniidae)1
- Über einige Mycetophiliden und Tipuliden des Bernsteins nebst Beschreibung der Gattung Palaeotanypeza (Tanypezinae) derselben Formation1
- Sur une nouvelle espèce de Toxorrhina du copal récent de Madagascar1
Each of the 12 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 Toxorhina
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Mike Ostrowski Depicted place: Sarasota County, FL, USA ( 27°19′31″N 82°25′58″W / 27.3252876122°N 82.432877645°W / 27…
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Toxorhina 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Toxorhina”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLimoniinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loew 1850