Serromyia alphea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerromyiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Serromyia alphea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Serromyia alphea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Serromyia alphea and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Serromyia alphea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
529 taxa- Berosus (Berosus) morticinus2 sites
- Hemiptera2 sites
- Hesperinus heeri2 sites
- Hydrobiomorpha fraterna2 sites
- Kalotermes rhenanus2 sites
- Notonecta primaeva2 sites
- Palaeotramea cellulosa2 sites
- Paracymus excitatus2 sites
- Plecia collossea2 sites
- Plecia dubia2 sites
- Plecia gracilenta2 sites
- Plecia hypogaea2 sites
- Plecia luctuosa2 sites
- Plecia macrocephala2 sites
- Plecia pinguis2 sites
- Procladius2 sites
- Tanypus2 sites
- Tanypus palaemon2 sites
- Acalles icarus1 site
- Acalyptratae1 site
- Acanthocryptus bischoffi1 site
- Acoenites statzi1 site
- Aeschna dido1 site
- Aetalion oligocaenica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Serromyia alphea, 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- Neue Dipteren (Nematocera) aus dem Oberoligocan von Rott. 1. Teil 6. Familie: Tendipedidae (Zuck- oder Schwarmmucken). 2. Teil 7. Familie: Heleidae (Gnitzen) 3. Teil 8. Familie: Lycoriidae (Trauermucken)3
- Fossile Dipteren aus der Braunkohle von Rott im Siebengebirge1
Each of the 4 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 Serromyia alphea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Serromyia alphea 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 itSerromyia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Heyden 1870)