Dicranomyia stigmosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicranomyiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dicranomyia stigmosa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Dicranomyia stigmosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicranomyia stigmosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dicranomyia stigmosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Diptera2 sites
- Aphaena atava1 site
- Bembidium exoletum1 site
- Bruchus anilis1 site
- Bythoscopus lapidescens1 site
- Camponotites vetus1 site
- Cecidomyiidae1 site
- Chaoboridae1 site
- Chironomidae1 site
- Chironomus depletus1 site
- Chironomus patens1 site
- Cicadella parobtecta1 site
- Cuterebra ascarides1 site
- Cuterebra bibosa1 site
- Cyttaromyia fenestrata1 site
- Dermatobia hydropica1 site
- Dicranomyia primitiva1 site
- Dicranomyia rostrata1 site
- Entimus primordialis1 site
- Eoformica pinguis1 site
- Epiphanis deletus1 site
- Eristalis lapideus1 site
- Gnoriste dentoni1 site
- Gyrophaena saxicola1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dicranomyia stigmosa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dicranomyia stigmosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dicranomyia stigmosa 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.
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What may have been alongside itDicranomyia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1877