Alleculinae

Alleculinae is a subfamily of comb-clawed beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae. These beetles are characterized by an oval body, threadlike antennae, relatively long legs and tarsi quite elongated. Their most striking feature, however, are the combed claws of the hind tarsi, that show fine teeth.

Alleculinae

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
comb-clawed beetlePBDB
Sits inside
TenebrionidaePBDB
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 1 of 35 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences149.2 Mya11.7 ka158 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Alleculinae 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

35 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

5 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°E

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The named rock units Alleculinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alleculinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Alleculinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Alleculinae, 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

19 references

Each of the 35 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. 7 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 Alleculinae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alleculinae 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Laporte 1840)