Anaspis
Anaspis is a large genus of beetles belonging to the family Scraptiidae. These small beetles are sometimes falsely called tumbling flower beetles (Family:Mordellidae) as they occur in large numbers on flowers and have a habit of tumbling to the ground when disturbed. They do not have a vernacular common name, but some recent authors have coined the name false flower beetles, though this is used for their taxonomic family as well.
Sarefo · 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- Sits inside
- AnaspidiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 415 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 428.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
12 occurrences of Anaspis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Anaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anaspis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,081 taxa- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea3 sites
- Pherhombus antennalis3 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini3 sites
- Saarolepis3 sites
- Thelodus3 sites
- Thelodus laevis3 sites
- Yantaromyrmex samlandicus3 sites
- Abdera (Abdera) hoffeinsorum2 sites
- Acartophthalmites tertiaria2 sites
- Ampulicomorpha succinalis2 sites
- Anniculus balticus2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Archeofulvius gulosus2 sites
- Archipseudophasmatidae2 sites
- Archistempellina falcifera2 sites
- Archistempellina perkovskyi2 sites
- Balticophasma2 sites
- Berothidae2 sites
- Bradoponera meieri2 sites
- Cathartosilvanus necromanticus2 sites
- Clavibertus prominens2 sites
- Clya lugubris2 sites
- Contacyphon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anaspis, 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
6 references- Distribution of vertebrates in the Silurian of Estonia3
- Mordelliden und Scraptiiden aus baltischem Bernstein3
- New extinct Eocene Coleoptera in Baltic amber of Friedhelm Eichmann's collection (Germany)2
- A new species of the scraptiid beetle genus Anaspis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from the Baltic and Rovno amberas (Upper Eocene of eastern Europe)2
- New heteromerous beetles (Coleoptera) from the Baltic amber of eastern Prussia and gum copal of Zanzibar1
- Note sur la lettre de M. Maravigna sur les insectes trouvés dans l'ambre de la Sicile1
Each of the 12 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. 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 Anaspis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Sarefo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anaspis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anaspis”
- 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 itAnaspidini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1762