Limoniinae

Limoniinae is a subfamily of limoniid crane flies in the family Limoniidae. There are more than 30 genera and 3,700 described species in Limoniinae, found worldwide.

Limoniinae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 137 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 287 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 287 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 287 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 287 occurrencesEocene — about 189 of 287 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 287 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 287 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 287 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 287 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 5 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–102 Mya — about 6 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 11 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 162 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 18 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences137.05 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

287 occurrences of Limoniinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

287 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

23 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WRaritan/Magothy — 40.47°N, 74.37°Winterbasaltic plant-beds — 56.34°N, 6.23°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EWasatch — 39.79°N, 108.57°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ERedbank Plains — 27.66°S, 152.88°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WGarang — 35.35°N, 101.64°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Limoniinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 202 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limoniinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Limoniinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,960 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Limoniinae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

102 references

Each of the 287 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. 90 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 Limoniinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Limoniinae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Speiser 1909