Bagous
Bagous is a genus of snout and bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 360 described species in Bagous.

Emil Hochdanz · Public Domain · 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
- BagoinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Bagous 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
12 occurrences- Oligocene8%
- Pleistocene92%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bagous has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bagous and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bagous and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
567 taxa- Aphodius11 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus10 sites
- Bryaxis9 sites
- Helodidae9 sites
- Hydraena9 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus9 sites
- Stenus9 sites
- Aleocharinae8 sites
- Carpelimus8 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus8 sites
- Limnius volckmari8 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes8 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus8 sites
- Pelochares versicolor8 sites
- Anotylus rugosus7 sites
- Bembidion (Metallina) lampros7 sites
- Elmis aenea7 sites
- Helophorus7 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus7 sites
- Macronychus quadrituberculatus7 sites
- Ochthebius minimus7 sites
- Orectochilus villosus7 sites
- Phyllobius7 sites
- Platystethus cornutus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Bagous, 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
5 references- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK8
- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian1
- Paleogeography of the lower Volga at the end of Atelian time based on entomological and botanical data1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt1
Each of the 12 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 Bagous
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Emil Hochdanz
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bagous 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bagous”
- 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 itBagoinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1817