Anobiinae
Anobiinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Ptinidae, containing at least 45 genera.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtinidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 129 ka.
37 occurrences of Anobiinae 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
37 occurrences- Late Cretaceous5%
- Eocene73%
- Pleistocene22%
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
6 formations
- Green River Formation5
- Florissant Formation5
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation5
- Castle Eden Fissure-Fill Formation1
- Kap København Formation1
- Raritan Formation · Potomac Group1
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The named rock units Anobiinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anobiinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anobiinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,023 taxa- Stenus9 sites
- Aleocharinae7 sites
- Anobium punctatum7 sites
- Aphodius6 sites
- Bryaxis6 sites
- Carpelimus6 sites
- Hydraena6 sites
- Limnius volckmari6 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes6 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus6 sites
- Abdera (Abdera) hoffeinsorum5 sites
- Anotylus rugosus5 sites
- Attagenus hoffeinsorum5 sites
- Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile5 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus5 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus5 sites
- Helophorus5 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus5 sites
- Ochthebius minimus5 sites
- Orectochilus villosus5 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus5 sites
- Pelochares versicolor5 sites
- Pomatinus substriatus5 sites
- Riolus nitens5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Anobiinae, 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
26 references- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK5
- Three new species of Trichodesma LeConte, 1861 from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Anobiinae)3
- The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales3
- Contributions to the palaeofauna of Ptinidae (Coleptera) known from Baltic amber2
- New Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Baltic amber with a list of known fossil species2
- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant2
- Nicobium cretaceum sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea: Ptinidae), a new species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber1
- Three new Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber1
- New extinct Eocene Coleoptera in Baltic amber of Friedhelm Eichmann's collection (Germany)1
- A new Falsogastrallus Pic, 1914 species (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Eocene Baltic amber1
- Gastrallus michalskii sp. nov., a new species of tribe Gastrallini (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Eocene Baltic amber1
- New fossil species of Trichodesma LeConte, 1861 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Eocene Baltic amber collected in the Kaliningrad region, Russia1
Each of the 37 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. 14 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 Anobiinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- xpda
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anobiinae 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, “Anobiinae”
- 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 itPtinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1821