Tachinus elongatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TachinusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Tachinus elongatus 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Tachinus elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tachinus elongatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tachinus elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis4 sites
- Amara4 sites
- Arctopsyche ladogensis4 sites
- Bembidion4 sites
- Chrysolina4 sites
- Chrysomelidae4 sites
- Corticaria4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Cyriophthalmus variegatus4 sites
- Dyschirius4 sites
- Eucnecosum4 sites
- Hydroporus4 sites
- Ilybius4 sites
- Limnephilidae4 sites
- Notaris acridulus4 sites
- Olophrum4 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)4 sites
- Pycnoglypta lurida4 sites
- Agabus3 sites
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) affinis3 sites
- Aphodius3 sites
- Arctobyrrhus subcanus3 sites
- Atheta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tachinus elongatus, 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
3 references- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland4
- Environmental interpretation of fossil insect assemblages from MIS 5 at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado2
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tachinus elongatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tachinus elongatus 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 itTachinus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gyllenhal 1810