Cerambycidae

Cerambycidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
longhorned beetlePBDB
Sits inside
ChrysomeloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 232 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 232 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 232 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 232 occurrencesEocene — about 103 of 232 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 232 occurrencesMiocene — about 70 of 232 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 232 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 232 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 46 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 41 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 47 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 19 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences145.06 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

232 occurrences of Cerambycidae 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

232 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

20 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 108.14°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°WMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EPoole — 50.65°N, 2.11°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EHachiya — 35.48°N, 137.11°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.82°E

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The named rock units Cerambycidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerambycidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cerambycidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,958 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Cerambycidae, 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

106 references

Each of the 232 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. 94 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 content2

Picture of Cerambycidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itChrysomeloidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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