Asilomorpha

The Brachyceran infraorder Asilomorpha is a large and diverse group of flies, containing the bulk of the nonmuscoid Brachycera. The larvae of asilomorphs are extremely diverse in habits, as well.

Asilomorpha

Pollinator at English Wikipedia · 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
BrachyceraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182.9 Mya154.8 Mya184.9 Mya148.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Asilomorpha on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

5 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

2 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°E

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The named rock units Asilomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asilomorpha and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Asilomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Asilomorpha, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Asilomorpha

Credit
Pollinator at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asilomorpha 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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What may have been alongside itBrachycera through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rohdendorf 1961