Cantharini

Cantharini is a tribe of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are more than 40 genera and over 500 described species in Cantharini.

Cantharini

Beatriz Moisset · 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
CantharinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 154 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 76 of 154 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 154 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 154 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 154 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 154 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 154 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 154 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 5 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 44 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 27 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 39 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 10 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–23 Mya — about 13 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences110.1 Mya129 ka115 Mya0 Mya

154 occurrences of Cantharini 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

154 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

7 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBârnova-Muntele — 47.13°N, 27.66°E

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The named rock units Cantharini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 131 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cantharini and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

4,216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Cantharini, 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

55 references

Each of the 154 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. 43 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 Cantharini

Credit
Beatriz Moisset
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cantharini 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 itCantharinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Imhoff 1856