Mycetophila morio
Nicolas Théobald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- MycetophilaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mycetophila morio on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Mycetophila morio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mycetophila morio and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Mycetophila morio and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Aphanus murchisonae3 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus3 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio3 sites
- Bibio2 sites
- Bibio curtisii2 sites
- Bibio spectabilis2 sites
- Brachycera2 sites
- Cassida blancheti2 sites
- Chrysops2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Diniella fasciata2 sites
- Formica2 sites
- Formicidae2 sites
- Gnoriste meigeniana2 sites
- Heterogaster antiquus2 sites
- Lasius occultatus2 sites
- Libellulidae2 sites
- Pimpla saussurei2 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides2 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus2 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mycetophila morio, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France2
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence1
Each of the 3 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 Mycetophila morio
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mycetophila morio 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMycetophila through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1856