Plecia reducta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleciaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Plecia reducta 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Allenby Formation · Princeton Group4
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The named rock units Plecia reducta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plecia reducta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Plecia reducta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Plecia pictipennis5 sites
- Plecia avus4 sites
- Plecia curtula4 sites
- Penthetria fryi3 sites
- Plecia canadensis3 sites
- Plecia transitoria3 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Plecia tulameenensis2 sites
- Aphrophora angusta1 site
- Eohiodon woodruffi1 site
- Eoseira wilsonii1 site
- Etoptychoptera tertiaria1 site
- Mallomonas intermedia1 site
- Microphor defunctus1 site
- Penthetria intermedia1 site
- Plecia angustipennis1 site
- Plecia cairnesi1 site
- Plecia dilatata1 site
- Plecia elatior1 site
- Plecia minutula1 site
- Plecia nana1 site
- Plecia platyptera1 site
- Plecia pulla1 site
- Plecia similkameena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plecia reducta, 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- Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia6
- Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe1
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
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No picture of Plecia reducta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plecia reducta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Handlirsch 1910)