Nannohelea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratopogoniniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
12 occurrences of Nannohelea on record. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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 the same rock
1,062 taxa- Forcipomyia8 sites
- Dasyhelea6 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea)5 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus5 sites
- Ceratopogon5 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis5 sites
- Culicoides5 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa5 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)5 sites
- Monogedania clunipes5 sites
- Serromyia5 sites
- Ceratopogon hennigi4 sites
- Culicoides (Oecacta)4 sites
- Culicoides speciosus4 sites
- Fossihelea gracilitarsis4 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Meunierohelea nielseni4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea4 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Stilobezzia4 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata4 sites
- Tetraponera simplex4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nannohelea, 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
5 references- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber5
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine)2
- Biting midges from Dominican amber. III. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)2
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Mexican amber2
- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber1
Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Nannohelea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Nannohelea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCeratopogonini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grogan and Wirth 1980