Austroconops fossilis
No picture of Austroconops fossilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Austroconops fossilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustroconopsPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Austroconops fossilis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Austroconops fossilis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Austroconops fossilis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Archiaustroconops ceratoformis3 sites
- Archiaustroconops hamus3 sites
- Archiaustroconops szadziewskii2 sites
- Austroconops gondwanicus2 sites
- Gerontodacus succineus2 sites
- Lebanoculicoides mesozoicus2 sites
- Minyohelea2 sites
- Minyohelea lebanica2 sites
- Minyohelea minuta2 sites
- Minyohelea schleei2 sites
- Rhagionidae2 sites
- Alonchoptera lebanica1 site
- Araneidae1 site
- Archaeatropos randatae1 site
- Archaeoserphites melqarti1 site
- Archiaustroconops1 site
- Archiaustroconops bocaparvus1 site
- Archiaustroconops cretaceous1 site
- Archiculicoides acraorum1 site
- Archiculicoides schleei1 site
- Archiculicoides unus1 site
- Archisciada lebanensis1 site
- Astarteserphus grimaldii1 site
- Atelestites senectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Austroconops fossilis, 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
2 references- Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber with a discussion of the diversity and patterns found in other ambers2
- Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae)1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Austroconops fossilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Austroconops fossilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Austroconops fossilis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAustroconops through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Szadziewski 1996