Bibio curtisii

Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- BibioPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Bibio curtisii on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bibio curtisii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bibio curtisii and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bibio curtisii and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Plecia bucklandi6 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus5 sites
- Curculionidae5 sites
- Entimini5 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana5 sites
- Plecia livida5 sites
- Bibio curtisi4 sites
- Penthetria nervisinuata4 sites
- Plecia foersteri4 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides4 sites
- Aphanus murchisonae3 sites
- Bibio celasensis3 sites
- Bibio spectabilis3 sites
- Cassida blancheti3 sites
- Chironomidae3 sites
- Curculionites morosus3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio3 sites
- Mycetophila confusa3 sites
- Penthetria lugens3 sites
- Plecia morio3 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus3 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus3 sites
- Allodia pallipes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bibio curtisii, 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
4 references- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France5
- Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits2
- Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence2
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence2
Each of the 11 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 Bibio curtisii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bibio curtisii 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 itBibio through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1856