Anthophila

Bees are winged insects that form a monophyletic clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea of the order Hymenoptera, with over 20,000 known species in seven recognized families. Some species – including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees – are social insects living in colonies, whereas over 90% of bee species – including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees – are solitary.

Anthophila

Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
beePBDB
Sits inside
ApoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 404 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 404 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 207 of 404 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 34 of 404 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 138 of 404 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 404 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 404 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 34 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 116 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 24 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 11 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 26 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 35 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 30 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

404 occurrences of Anthophila 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

404 occurrences

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

26 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WRandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.59°N, 7.24°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.61°N, 117.43°WMost — 50.57°N, 13.73°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WBotchi — 47.99°N, 139.45°EHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°ECastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WHuazhige — 23.02°N, 104.38°E

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The named rock units Anthophila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 247 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthophila and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anthophila and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,711 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 164 sites for Anthophila, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

145 references

Each of the 404 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. 133 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 Anthophila

Credit
Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthophila 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1804