Bibionoidea

The Bibionoidea are a superfamily within the order Diptera. The following families are included within the Bibionoidea:Bibionidae – March flies Hesperinidae

Bibionoidea

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
BibionomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 870 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 870 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 870 occurrencesEocene — about 207 of 870 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 377 of 870 occurrencesMiocene — about 192 of 870 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 870 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 870 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 18 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 44 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 46 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 127 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 109 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 218 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 63 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 56 occurrences14–9.5 Mya — about 90 occurrences9.5–4.7 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences137.05 Mya129 ka142 Mya0 Mya

870 occurrences of Bibionoidea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

870 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

46 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WAllenby — 49.37°N, 120.59°WAllenby — 49.48°N, 120.54°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGreen River — 42.00°N, 107.00°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WGreen River — 40.01°N, 108.11°WGreen River — 39.79°N, 109.07°WGreen River — 39.83°N, 108.06°WRenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WCypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WSkarðsströnd–Mókollsdalur — 65.51°N, 21.53°WCalcaires de Vacheres — 43.90°N, 5.81°ETogo — 31.89°N, 130.36°EMonteils — 44.09°N, 4.18°EEnspel — 50.61°N, 7.89°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°W

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The named rock units Bibionoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 351 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bibionoidea and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Bibionoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

7,357 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Bibionoidea, 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

146 references

Each of the 870 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. 134 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 Bibionoidea

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bibionoidea 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itBibionomorpha through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1821