Tipulidae

Tipulidae is a family of large crane flies in the order Diptera. There are more than 30 genera and 4,200 described species in Tipulidae, common and widespread throughout the world.

Tipulidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
crane flyPBDB
Sits inside
TipuloideaPBDB
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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 250 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 39 of 250 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 250 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 250 occurrencesEocene — about 134 of 250 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 33 of 250 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 250 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 250 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 250 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 18 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 13 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 18 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 17 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 91 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 16 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 15 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences149.2 Mya129 ka158 Mya0 Mya

250 occurrences of Tipulidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

250 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

39 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WØlst — 56.84°N, 8.99°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°EØlst — 56.95°N, 8.91°EGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WRenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WPaskapoo — 52.33°N, 113.74°WCreede — 37.84°N, 106.92°WFur — 56.90°N, 8.75°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WSharteg — 44.14°N, 95.79°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WAllenby — 49.44°N, 120.54°WKyndal — 50.82°N, 132.70°E

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The named rock units Tipulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tipulidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tipulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,021 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Tipulidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

92 references

Each of the 250 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. 80 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 content2

Picture of Tipulidae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itTipuloidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802