Ceratopogonini

Ceratopogonini is a tribe of biting midges, family Ceratopogonidae.

Ceratopogonini

James K. Lindsey · 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
CeratopogoninaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 33 of 364 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 364 occurrencesEocene — about 282 of 364 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 364 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 364 occurrencesMiocene96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 36 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 187 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 36 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 16 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences89.8 Mya20.45 Mya96 Mya12 Mya

364 occurrences of Ceratopogonini on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

364 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

13 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WPomahaka — 46.01°S, 169.24°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WBattle — 49.24°N, 105.21°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Ceratopogonini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 305 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratopogonini and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ceratopogonini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,743 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Ceratopogonini, 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

40 references

Each of the 364 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. 28 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 Ceratopogonini

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratopogonini 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCeratopogoninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newman 1834