Apion

Apion is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Brentidae. The genus was first described in 1797 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst.

Apion

Uncredited · Attribution · 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
ApioninaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 19 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Apion on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

19 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

4 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°W

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The named rock units Apion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apion and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Apion and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

753 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Apion, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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 Apion

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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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What may have been alongside itApionina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herbst 1797