Schizophora

The Schizophora are a section of true flies containing 78 families, which are collectively referred to as muscoids, although technically the term "muscoid" should be limited to flies in the superfamily Muscoidea; this is an example of informal, historical usage persisting in the vernacular. The section is divided into two subsections, the Acalyptratae and Calyptratae, which are commonly referred to as acalyptrate muscoids and calyptrate muscoids, respectively.

Schizophora

Eric Guinther · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CyclorrhaphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 387 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 390.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 396 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 396 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 396 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 396 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEocene — about 233 of 396 occurrencesOligocene — about 29 of 396 occurrencesMiocene — about 82 of 396 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 396 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 396 occurrences398–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–106 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences93–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 25 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 219 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 86 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 59 occurrences387.95 Mya11.7 ka398 Mya0 Mya

396 occurrences of Schizophora on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

396 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

30 formations

Green River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.79°N, 109.07°WGreen River — 40.01°N, 108.11°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBouldnor — 50.75°N, 1.35°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EBechlejovice II — 50.75°N, 14.07°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°EGrubstake — 63.86°N, 148.85°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.45°N, 112.67°WRedbank Plains — 27.66°S, 152.88°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°E

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The named rock units Schizophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 286 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizophora and its relatives

Eocene

Where Schizophora and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 140 sites for Schizophora, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

140 references

Each of the 396 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. 128 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 Schizophora

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

No 3D scan of Schizophora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Becher 1882