Plecia bucklandi

Plecia bucklandi

Gaëlle Doitteau · CC BY 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
PleciaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesOligocene — about 28 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya12.8 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

29 occurrences of Plecia bucklandi 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

29 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

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°E

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The named rock units Plecia bucklandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plecia bucklandi and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Plecia bucklandi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Plecia bucklandi, 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

6 references

Each of the 29 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 Plecia bucklandi

Credit
Gaëlle Doitteau
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plecia bucklandi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlecia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1849)