Tephritoidea

The Tephritoidea are a superfamily of flies. It has over 7,800 species, the majority of them in family Tephritidae.

Tephritoidea

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL · 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
SchizophoraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 15 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Tephritoidea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

38 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

11 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WGessoso-solfifera — 43.90°N, 12.92°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WBechlejovice II — 50.75°N, 14.07°EGrubstake — 63.86°N, 148.85°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EJijuntun — 41.84°N, 123.90°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Tephritoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tephritoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tephritoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tephritoidea, 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 38 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 Tephritoidea

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Licence
GFDL
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tephritoidea 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.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSchizophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newman 1834