Leptoconops

Leptoconops is a midge genus in the family Ceratopogonidae. It has a mostly tropical or subtropical distribution worldwide, but some species occur as far north as Moscow region in Russia and the Yukon Territory in Canada.

Leptoconops

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 36 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121.4 Mya37.71 Mya128 Mya32 Mya

36 occurrences of Leptoconops on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

36 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

7 formations

Foremost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Leptoconops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptoconops and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Leptoconops and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Leptoconops, 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

23 references

Each of the 36 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. 11 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 Leptoconops

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leptoconops 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeptoconopinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Skuse 1889