Culicoides tyrrelli

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CulicoidesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Culicoides tyrrelli on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group4
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The named rock units Culicoides tyrrelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Culicoides tyrrelli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Culicoides tyrrelli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Atriculicoides globosus6 sites
- Culicoides filipalpis6 sites
- Archaeromma minutissimum4 sites
- Cretomiastor ferejunctus4 sites
- Culicoides canadensis4 sites
- Heleageron arenatus4 sites
- Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus4 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon vetus4 sites
- Peronehelea chrimikalydia4 sites
- Serphites paradoxus4 sites
- Archaeromma nearcticum3 sites
- Baeomorpha dubitata3 sites
- Baeomorpha ovatata3 sites
- Culicoides obuncus3 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon remmi3 sites
- Atriculicoides2 sites
- Berothidae2 sites
- Canadaphis carpenteri2 sites
- Culicoides annosus2 sites
- Longiradius foottitti2 sites
- Maksika intermedia2 sites
- Mesozoicaphis canadensis2 sites
- Nemedromia campania2 sites
- Palaeobrachypogon aquilonius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Culicoides tyrrelli, 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 referencesEach of the 6 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 Culicoides tyrrelli
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Culicoides tyrrelli 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 itCulicoides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Boesel 1937)