Anthobium
Anthobium is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.

Emil Hochdanz · Public Domain · 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
- AnthophaginiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.
2 occurrences of Anthobium on record. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anthobium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Aclypea altaica1 site
- Agabus1 site
- Agathidium marginatum1 site
- Amara (Celia)1 site
- Amara interstitialis1 site
- Anotylus gibbulus1 site
- Anthicus1 site
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) groehni1 site
- Aphodius1 site
- Apionidae1 site
- Atomaria (Anchicera) alekseevi1 site
- Baltamauroania mirabilicornis1 site
- Baltosidis damzeni1 site
- Bembidion1 site
- Bembidion (Eupetedromus) alekseevi1 site
- Biphyllus1 site
- Bitoma glaesisepulta1 site
- Bolitobius1 site
- Carabus (Aulonocarabus) truncaticollis1 site
- Carcinops donelaitisi1 site
- Cercyon1 site
- Ceutorhynchus1 site
- Ceutorhynchus alekseevi1 site
- Charhyphus balticus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anthobium, 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
2 references- A remarkable new species of the rove beetle genus Anthobium Leach, 1819 from Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae)1
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anthobium
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Emil Hochdanz
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anthobium 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anthobium”
- 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 itAnthophagini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1819