Tipula florissanta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TipulaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tipula florissanta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Tipula florissanta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tipula florissanta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tipula florissanta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Cyttaromyia princetoniana2 sites
- Dicranomyia stagnorum2 sites
- Geralophus lassatus2 sites
- Geralophus occultus2 sites
- Agallia lewisii1 site
- Amara danae1 site
- Amara sterilis1 site
- Amphicosmus (Amphicosmus) delicatulus1 site
- Antherophagus megalops1 site
- Anthonomus defossus1 site
- Aphaenogaster mayri1 site
- Aphodius laminicola1 site
- Araneaovoius columbiae1 site
- Atalantycha humata1 site
- Attagenus aboriginalis1 site
- Bembidium tumulorum1 site
- Bibio cockerelli1 site
- Bibio explanatus1 site
- Bibio vulcanius1 site
- Bibio wickhami1 site
- Bledius osborni1 site
- Byrrhus romingeri1 site
- Cacalydus lapsus1 site
- Callidiopsites grandiceps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tipula florissanta, 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- A Report on Some Miocene Diptera from Florissant, Colorado3
- Tertiary Tipulidae, with special reference to those of Florissant, Colorado3
Each of the 6 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 Tipula florissanta
- 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 Tipula florissanta 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 itTipula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1894