Apinae

The Apinae are the subfamily that includes the majority of bees in the family Apidae. It includes the familiar "corbiculate" bees—bumblebees, honey bees, orchid bees, stingless bees, and the extinct genus Euglossopteryx. It also includes all but two of the groups that were previously classified in the family Anthophoridae.

Apinae

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL 1.2 · 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
ApidaePBDB
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 227 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 227 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 99 of 227 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 227 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 85 of 227 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 227 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 227 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 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 17 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 50 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 11 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 23 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

227 occurrences of Apinae 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

227 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

21 formations

Randeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EMost — 50.57°N, 13.73°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WLatah — 47.61°N, 117.43°WChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EBotchi — 47.99°N, 139.45°ECypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WHuazhige — 23.02°N, 104.38°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EHaruki — 35.50°N, 134.44°E

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The named rock units Apinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 143 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,868 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Apinae, 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

88 references

Each of the 227 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. 76 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 Apinae

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apinae 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 1802