Buprestites

Buprestites is a fossil genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:Buprestites agriloides Heer, 1862 Buprestites alutacea (Germar, 1837) Buprestites carbonum (Germar, 1837) Buprestites debilis Heer, 1860 Buprestites exstinctus Heer, 1847 Buprestites falconeri Heer, 1862 Buprestites heeri Scudder, 1900 Buprestites major (Germar, 1837) Buprestites minnae Giebel, 1856 Buprestites oeningensis Heer, 1847 Buprestites purbecensis Cockerell, 1920 Buprestites viridis Meunier, 1898 Buprestites xylographica (Germar, 1849)

Buprestites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BuprestinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya11.63 Mya63 Mya4 Mya

22 occurrences of Buprestites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

22 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

6 formations

Rott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EPoole — 50.65°N, 1.95°WAtanikerluk — 70.43°N, 54.77°WBovey — 50.58°N, 3.67°W

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The named rock units Buprestites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buprestites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Buprestites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

583 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Buprestites, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 Buprestites

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buprestites 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 itBuprestinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1847