Anthonomus

Agricultural Research Service , United States Department of Agriculture . · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- AnthonominiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
38 occurrences of Anthonomus 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
38 occurrences- Paleocene5%
- Eocene45%
- Miocene18%
- Pleistocene32%
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 Formation11
- Green River Formation6
- Scarborough Formation6
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation5
- Maíz Gordo Formation2
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The named rock units Anthonomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anthonomus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anthonomus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,370 taxa- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Aphodius5 sites
- Bagous5 sites
- Bryaxis5 sites
- Carpelimus5 sites
- Coelostoma orbiculare5 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus5 sites
- Helodidae5 sites
- Hydraena5 sites
- Pelochares versicolor5 sites
- Phyllobius5 sites
- Platystethus cornutus5 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus5 sites
- Stenus5 sites
- Bembidion (Metallina) lampros4 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanes) articulatum4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Epicaerus subterraneus4 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus4 sites
- Haliplus4 sites
- Helophorus4 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus4 sites
- Limnius volckmari4 sites
- Macronychus quadrituberculatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Anthonomus, 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
15 references- Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States11
- Canadian fossil insects, 4. Additions to the coleopterous fauna of the interglacial clays of the Toronto district6
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK5
- New Curculioninae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican amber3
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado3
- A new species of the weevil genus Anthonomus Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican amber1
- New species of weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Dominican amber1
- A new species of the genus Anthonomus Germar (Curculionidae) in Mexican amber1
- Fossil beetles from a fossil wood rat midden in western Texas1
- The Fauna of the Sunchal (or Margas Verdes) formation, Northern Argentina1
- Tertiary Insects from Argentina1
- Tertiary insects from Kudia River, Maritime Province, Siberia1
Each of the 38 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. 3 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 Anthonomus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Agricultural Research Service , United States Department of Agriculture .
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anthonomus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnthonomini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1817