Tachinusini

Searched as Tachinidae. The Paleobiology Database treats Tachinusini as the accepted name.

The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachinid flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods, usually other insects. The family is known from many habitats in all zoogeographical regions and is especially diverse in South America.

Tachinusini

Thomas Bresson · CC BY 2.0 · 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
TachyporinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 7 of 72 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 72 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences149.2 Mya11.7 ka158 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Tachinusini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

72 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

Olympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WLaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°W

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The named rock units Tachinusini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tachinusini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tachinusini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,809 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Tachinusini, 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 72 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 Tachinusini

Credit
Thomas Bresson
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tachinusini 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

Licence
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 itTachyporinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fleming 1821)