Glossina oligocenus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Glossina oligocenus 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
5 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 Glossina oligocenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glossina oligocenus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Glossina oligocenus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Gerridae2 sites
- Glossina osborni2 sites
- Protazteca hendersoni2 sites
- Alysia phanerognatha1 site
- Amara cockerelli1 site
- Aphaenogaster mayri1 site
- Archaeochrysa1 site
- Archaeochrysa cockerelli1 site
- Archiponera wheeleri1 site
- Archiraphidia tumulata1 site
- Arhopalus pavitus1 site
- Ataenius restructus1 site
- Athalia wheeleri1 site
- Bassus miocenicus1 site
- Bibio wickhami1 site
- Bruchus exhumatus1 site
- Buprestis megistarche1 site
- Caliroa micrarche1 site
- Caliroa mima1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Cheilosia miocenica1 site
- Cheilosia sepultula1 site
- Chironomus proterus1 site
- Chironomus scudderiellus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Glossina oligocenus, 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
5 references- The third fossil tsetse-fly1
- Visit to the Florissant exhibit in the British Museum (Natural History): Saturday, March 6th, 19091
- Some Old World types of insects in the Miocene of Colorado1
- A fossil tsetse-fly in Colorado1
- Some Insects of special interest from Florissant, Colorado and other points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah1
Each of the 5 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 Glossina oligocenus 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 Glossina oligocenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossina oligocenus 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 itGlossina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scudder 1892)