Orthocladius

Orthocladius is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Orthocladius

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.3–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya2.58 Mya38.4 Mya1.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Orthocladius on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

2 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°W

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The named rock units Orthocladius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthocladius and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Orthocladius and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

612 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Orthocladius, 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

3 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. 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 Orthocladius

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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthocladius 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

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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 itOrthocladiinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van der Wulp 1874