Microphorites

Microphorites is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEocene128–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121.4 Mya56 Mya128 Mya36 Mya

14 occurrences of Microphorites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

14 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

3 formations

Escucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EHollín — 0.71°S, 77.79°W

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The named rock units Microphorites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microphorites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Microphorites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,411 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Microphorites, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 Microphorites 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 Microphorites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microphorites 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 itMicrophorinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hennig 1971