Metopina

Metopina is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Metopina

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya20.45 Mya73 Mya13 Mya

7 occurrences of Metopina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

7 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

1 formation

Mazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°W

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The named rock units Metopina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metopina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metopina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Metopina, 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

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Metopina

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Metopina 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPhoridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macquart 1835