Anthribidae

Anthribidae is a family of beetles also known as fungus weevils. They often have thread-like antennae that may occasionally be longer than the body and are usually clubbed at the end. Since the members of Anthribidae are primitive weevils, the antennae are not elbowed. The antennae can also be the longest of any members of Curculionoidea. As in the Nemonychidae, the labrum appears as a separate segment to the clypeus, and the maxillary palps are long and projecting.

Anthribidae

Desmond W. Helmore · CC BY 4.0 · 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
fungus weevilPBDB
Sits inside
CurculionoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 35 of 113 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 113 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 113 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 113 occurrencesEocene — about 42 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 113 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 113 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 14 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 21 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 27 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence149.2 Mya3.6 Mya158 Mya0 Mya

113 occurrences of Anthribidae 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

113 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

12 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°EArzamasovskaya — 44.61°N, 135.44°E

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The named rock units Anthribidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthribidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anthribidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,940 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Anthribidae, 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

40 references

Each of the 113 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. 28 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 Anthribidae

Credit
Desmond W. Helmore
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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. Billberg 1820