Sciara

Sciara

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
SciarinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 97 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 97 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 97 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 97 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 30 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 97 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–24 Mya — about 36 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 21 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Sciara on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

97 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

14 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WCypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°E

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The named rock units Sciara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciara and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Sciara and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

2,859 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Sciara, 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

25 references

Each of the 97 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. 13 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 Sciara

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sciara was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSciarinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meigen 1803