Scatopsoidea

Scatopsoidea is a superfamily of true flies that comprises the families Canthyloscelidae, Scatopsidae, and Valeseguyidae. There are about 400 known species worldwide but more may yet to be discovered, especially in the tropics.

Scatopsoidea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 43 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 43 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 43 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–32 Mya — about 9 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences165.3 Mya20.45 Mya174 Mya11 Mya

43 occurrences of Scatopsoidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

43 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

12 formations

Kishenehn — 48.40°N, 113.71°WGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.72°WIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EHollín — 0.71°S, 77.79°W

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The named rock units Scatopsoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scatopsoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scatopsoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,478 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Scatopsoidea, 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

24 references

Each of the 43 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 Scatopsoidea

Credit
kallerna
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scatopsoidea 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.

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 itPsychodomorpha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newman 1834