Helius formosus
No picture of Helius formosus 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 Helius formosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Helius formosus 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.
Helius formosus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Helius formosus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
475 taxa- Helius minutus3 sites
- Trichoneura (Trichoneura) vulgaris3 sites
- Alluaudomyia succinea2 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea)2 sites
- Ceratopogon2 sites
- Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii2 sites
- Culicoides2 sites
- Culicoides (Oecacta) dasyheleiformis2 sites
- Culicoides ceranowiczi2 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata2 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) longirostris2 sites
- Eodictyna communis2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Evaniella eocenica2 sites
- Forcipomyia2 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula2 sites
- Hylobittacus fossilis2 sites
- Leiobunum longipes2 sites
- Monogedania clunipes2 sites
- Palaeopoecilostola longicornis2 sites
- Palaeopoecilostola speciosa2 sites
- Paleotelmatoscopus formosa2 sites
- Plategeocranus sulcatus2 sites
- Sucinorhagonycha kulickae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Helius formosus, 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 references- Fossil Tipulomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene). Revision of the genus Helius Lepeletier et Serville (Limoniidae)2
- Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene): the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville, 18281
Each 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. 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 Helius formosus 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 Helius formosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helius formosus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHelius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krzemiński 1993