Bibio

Bibio, March flies or St. Mark's flies, is a genus of flies (Diptera).

Bibio

Pierre Duhem · CC BY 2.5 · 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
BibioninaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 2 of 245 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 37 of 245 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 80 of 245 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 95 of 245 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 245 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 245 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 17 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 31 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 31 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 13 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 17 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 32 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 30 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59.24 Mya2.58 Mya63 Mya0 Mya

245 occurrences of Bibio on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

245 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

25 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°ESkarðsströnd–Mókollsdalur — 65.51°N, 21.53°WEnspel — 50.61°N, 7.89°EChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°EGrubstake — 63.86°N, 148.85°WHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°ERenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°ETogo — 31.89°N, 130.36°EMonteils — 44.09°N, 4.18°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°ENingming — 22.14°N, 107.03°EDol — 46.24°N, 14.57°E

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The named rock units Bibio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bibio and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bibio and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Bibio, 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

69 references

Each of the 245 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. 57 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 Bibio

Credit
Pierre Duhem
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itBibionina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1762