Fossihelea gracilitarsis
No picture of Fossihelea gracilitarsis 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 Fossihelea gracilitarsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FossiheleaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Fossihelea gracilitarsis 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
7 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.
Fossihelea gracilitarsis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fossihelea gracilitarsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,132 taxa- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus7 sites
- Monogedania clunipes7 sites
- Ceratopogon6 sites
- Atyphohelea cothurnata5 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis5 sites
- Dasyhelea5 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa5 sites
- Forcipomyia5 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi5 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea5 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea5 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni5 sites
- Prenolepis henschei5 sites
- Serromyia5 sites
- Tetraponera simplex5 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi5 sites
- Brachypogon (Brachypogon) balticus4 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti4 sites
- Culicoides4 sites
- Culicoides speciosus4 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius4 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus4 sites
- Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) piriformis4 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Fossihelea gracilitarsis, 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
3 references- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber5
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine)1
- Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Fossihelea gracilitarsis 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 Fossihelea gracilitarsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fossihelea gracilitarsis 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 itFossihelea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meunier 1904)