Berytidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- stilt bugPBDB
- Sits inside
- LygaeoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
6 occurrences of Berytidae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Berytidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Berytidae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Berytidae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Plecia bucklandi4 sites
- Plecia foersteri4 sites
- Plecia livida4 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides4 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus3 sites
- Bibio3 sites
- Bibio curtisi3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis3 sites
- Entimini3 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio3 sites
- Libellulidae3 sites
- Metacanthus (Megalomerium) serratum3 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana3 sites
- Plecia3 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus3 sites
- Aphanus murchisonae2 sites
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi2 sites
- Bibio curtisii2 sites
- Bibio spectabilis2 sites
- Bibionidae2 sites
- Chironomus aquisextanus2 sites
- Cydnus meunieri2 sites
- Dilophus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Berytidae, 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
3 references- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France3
- Essai de révision des Berytidae fossiles (Heteroptera, Pentatomorpha)2
- Insectos del Mioceno inferior de Ribesalbes (Castellón, España). Paleoptera y Neoptera poli- y paraneoptera1
Each of the 6 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 Berytidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Berytidae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLygaeoidea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fieber 1851