Palaeomedeterus

Palaeomedeterus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Baltic amber and Cambay amber from the Eocene. The genus was first proposed by Fernand Meunier in 1895 with no included species or description, though illustrations were provided for six different unnamed species.

Palaeomedeterus

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
PeloropeodinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 30 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

30 occurrences of Palaeomedeterus 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

30 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.

Palaeomedeterus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeomedeterus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palaeomedeterus, 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

9 references

Each of the 30 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 Palaeomedeterus

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 Palaeomedeterus 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 itPeloropeodinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meunier 1895