Microphor defunctus
No picture of Microphor defunctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microphor defunctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrophorPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Microphor defunctus 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
1 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
- Allenby Formation · Princeton Group1
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The named rock units Microphor defunctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microphor defunctus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Microphor defunctus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aphrophora angusta1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Etoptychoptera tertiaria1 site
- Plecia avus1 site
- Plecia canadensis1 site
- Plecia curtula1 site
- Plecia elatior1 site
- Plecia nana1 site
- Plecia pictipennis1 site
- Plecia pulla1 site
- Plecia reducta1 site
- Plecia transitoria1 site
- Tipula tulameena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microphor defunctus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Microphor defunctus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microphor defunctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMicrophor through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Handlirsch 1910)