Apioninae

Apioninae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
BrentidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 112 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 112 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 46 of 112 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 112 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 24 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 16 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Apioninae 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

112 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

16 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ETadushi — 44.26°N, 135.30°E

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The named rock units Apioninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apioninae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apioninae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,818 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Apioninae, 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

43 references

Each of the 112 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. 31 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 Apioninae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Apioninae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schoenherr 1823)