Alticini

A flea beetle is any small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae) that is part of the tribe Alticini, which is part of the subfamily Galerucinae. Historically the flea beetles were classified as their own subfamily.

Alticini

James K. Lindsey · 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
flea beetlePBDB
Sits inside
GalerucinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 53 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 53 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Alticini 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

53 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

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°W

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The named rock units Alticini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alticini and its relatives

Eocene

Where Alticini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,876 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Alticini, 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

33 references

Each of the 53 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. 21 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 Alticini

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alticini 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.

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 itGalerucinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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