Bostrichoidea

Bostrichoidea is a superfamily of beetles. It is the type superfamily of the infraorder Bostrichiformia.

Bostrichoidea

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 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
Sits inside
BostrichiformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 353 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 353 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 353 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 353 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 353 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 353 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 353 occurrencesEocene — about 201 of 353 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 353 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 353 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 353 occurrencesPleistocene — about 29 of 353 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 67 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 14 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 180 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 21 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 33 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

353 occurrences of Bostrichoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

353 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

30 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WMorrison — 44.54°N, 107.78°WMorrison — 40.46°N, 108.39°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ETwo Medicine — 48.91°N, 112.64°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WCastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.81°WKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WBaruungoyot — 43.51°N, 101.06°E

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The named rock units Bostrichoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 272 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bostrichoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bostrichoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Bostrichoidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

158 references

Each of the 353 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. 146 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 Bostrichoidea

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bostrichoidea was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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