Anthonomus defossus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthonomusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Anthonomus defossus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Anthonomus defossus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anthonomus defossus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anthonomus defossus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Chauliognathus pristinus1 site
- Chrysobothris haydeni1 site
- Coenagrionoidea1 site
- Cryptorhynchus evinctus1 site
- Curculio femoratus1 site
- Curculio minusculus1 site
- Cyttaromyia princetoniana1 site
- Dicranomyia stagnorum1 site
- Eurhinus occultus1 site
- Geralophus occultus1 site
- Geroncolabis tertiaria1 site
- Hadoa grandiosa1 site
- Homoeogamia ventriosa1 site
- Ophryastites cinereus1 site
- Oryctoscirtetes protogaeum1 site
- Otiorhynchites absentivus1 site
- Smicrorhynchus macgeei1 site
- Spermophagus vivificatus1 site
- Spiladopygia exsulata1 site
- Tipula florissanta1 site
- Tipula internecata1 site
- Tipula subterjacens1 site
- Toxorhynchus pumilum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anthonomus defossus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States2
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries1
Each of the 3 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 Anthonomus defossus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anthonomus defossus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnthonomus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1876