Cyclorrhapha

Cyclorrhapha is an unranked taxon within the infraorder Muscomorpha. They are called "Cyclorrhapha" with reference to the circular aperture through which the adult escapes the puparium. This is a circumscriptional name that has significant historical familiarity, but in the present classification, this name is synonymous with the more recent "Muscomorpha".

Cyclorrhapha

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 387 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 390.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 815 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 815 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 815 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 815 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 63 of 815 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 53 of 815 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 815 occurrencesEocene — about 439 of 815 occurrencesOligocene — about 62 of 815 occurrencesMiocene — about 133 of 815 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 815 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 815 occurrences398–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–119 Mya — about 21 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 39 occurrences106–93 Mya — about 23 occurrences93–80 Mya — about 15 occurrences80–66 Mya — about 17 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 9 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 60 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 399 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 145 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 85 occurrences387.95 Mya11.7 ka398 Mya0 Mya

815 occurrences of Cyclorrhapha 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

815 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

50 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.79°N, 109.07°WGreen River — 40.01°N, 108.11°WGreen River — 39.47°N, 108.45°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBouldnor — 50.75°N, 1.35°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WLaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Cyclorrhapha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 536 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclorrhapha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cyclorrhapha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,597 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 238 sites for Cyclorrhapha, 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

229 references

Each of the 815 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. 217 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 Cyclorrhapha

Credit
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
Licence
CC BY-SA 1.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyclorrhapha was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brauer 1863