Chaoborus abundans
No picture of Chaoborus abundans 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 Chaoborus abundans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChaoborusPBDB
- 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 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chaoborus abundans on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Chaoborus abundans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chaoborus abundans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Agathis1 site
- Aglaoreidia1 site
- Ailanthipites1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Archostemata1 site
- Austrogomphus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Baladi warru1 site
- Banksia1 site
- Brachychiton1 site
- Burbungoides gulgongensis1 site
- Ceratopogonidae1 site
- Chenopodipollis chenopodiaceoides1 site
- Chrysomeloidea1 site
- Cingulatisporites ornatus1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
- Corduliidae1 site
- Cupanieidites1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Cyatheacidites annulatus1 site
- Cyathidites1 site
- Dacrydium1 site
- Dactylaria sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chaoborus abundans, 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- New aquatic insects from the Miocene of Australia with notes on the ecology and ontogeny of a new species of Chaoborus (Diptera, Chaoboridae)1
- The paleobiology of a new osmeriform fish species from Australia1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Chaoborus abundans 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 Chaoborus abundans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chaoborus abundans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChaoborus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baranov et al. 2024