Bostrichidae

The Bostrichidae are a family of beetles with more than 700 described species. They are commonly called auger beetles, false powderpost beetles, or horned powderpost beetles.

Bostrichidae

Desmond W. Helmore · CC BY 4.0 · 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
Also called
false powderpost beetlePBDB
Sits inside
BostrichoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 35 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 51 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 16 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 19 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka108 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Bostrichidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

51 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

5 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Bostrichidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bostrichidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bostrichidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,645 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Bostrichidae, 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

24 references

Each of the 51 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. 12 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 Bostrichidae

Credit
Desmond W. Helmore
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bostrichidae 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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What may have been alongside itBostrichoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802