Aulonothroscus
Aulonothroscus is a genus of small false click beetles in the family Throscidae. There are more than 20 described species in Aulonothroscus.

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 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- Sits inside
- ThroscidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 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 Aulonothroscus 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
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.
Aulonothroscus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aulonothroscus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
430 taxa- Formica gustawi2 sites
- Microrhagus2 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea2 sites
- Prenolepis henschei2 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata2 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi2 sites
- Ablator felix1 site
- Acrulia danica1 site
- Adicophasma hafniensis1 site
- Aleyrodidae1 site
- Alluaudomyia1 site
- Alluaudomyia succinea1 site
- Amelyris (Asymelyris) jutlandicus1 site
- Ampedus (Octamenogonoides) gebleri1 site
- Ampharthropelma decipiens1 site
- Anagroidea1 site
- Anandrus redemptus1 site
- Anomalocys lawrencei1 site
- Apion (Aspidapion) khnzoriani1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Araneus defunctus1 site
- Archaeocercoides puchkovi1 site
- Archaeognatha1 site
- Archaeotinodes igneusaper1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aulonothroscus, 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
2 references- Eucnemidae and Throscidae from Baltic amber (Coleoptera)2
- Predstaviteli Sternoxia (Coleoptera iz baltiyskogo yantarya1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aulonothroscus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aulonothroscus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThroscidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horn 1890