Prohercostomus noxialis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProhercostomusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prohercostomus noxialis 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
2 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.
Prohercostomus noxialis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Prohercostomus noxialis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,226 taxa- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus2 sites
- Ceratopogon eminens2 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis2 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti2 sites
- Culicoides speciosus2 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei2 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa2 sites
- Formica flori2 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea2 sites
- Holocentropus atratus2 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri2 sites
- Lype sericea2 sites
- Monogedania clunipes2 sites
- Phlaeothrips schlechtendali2 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni2 sites
- Porricondylinae2 sites
- Prenolepis henschei2 sites
- Pristapenesia primaeva2 sites
- Prodinapsis succinalis2 sites
- Prohercostomus meunierianus2 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata2 sites
- Strieremaeus illibatus2 sites
- Sussudio boreus2 sites
- Tetraponera simplex2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prohercostomus noxialis, 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- Notes on Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Ukrainian and Baltic amber1
- Monographie des Dolichopodidae de l'ambre de la Baltique, Part 121
Each of the 2 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 Prohercostomus noxialis
- 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 Prohercostomus noxialis 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 itProhercostomus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meunier 1907)