Chironomoidea

The Chironomoidea are a superfamily within the order Diptera, suborder Nematocera, infraorder Culicomorpha. This superfamily contains the families Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, and Thaumaleidae.

Chironomoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CulicomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 245 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1553 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1553 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 1553 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 1553 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 1553 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 58 of 1553 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 166 of 1553 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 197 of 1553 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 1553 occurrencesEocene — about 713 of 1553 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 81 of 1553 occurrencesMiocene — about 244 of 1553 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 1553 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 1553 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 7 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 17 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 36 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 8 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 10 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 112 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 24 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 12 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 51 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 39 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 72 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 34 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 69 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 52 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 593 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 43 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 205 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 77 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 80 occurrences245.19 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

1,553 occurrences of Chironomoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

1,553 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

74 formations

Barstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EGlushkovo — 51.74°N, 117.36°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 51.82°N, 117.17°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°EUkurei — 52.53°N, 116.76°EUkurei — 52.57°N, 116.98°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.72°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WLaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°W

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The named rock units Chironomoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 964 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chironomoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Chironomoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 306 sites for Chironomoidea, and this reads 240 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

212 references

Each of the 1,553 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. 200 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 Chironomoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Chironomoidea 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macquart 1838