Chrysomelinae

The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), commonly known as broad-bodied leaf beetles or broad-shouldered leaf beetles. It includes some 3,000 species around the world.

Chrysomelinae

James K. Lindsey · 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
ChrysomelidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 147 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 147 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 147 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 147 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 147 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 147 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 147 occurrencesPleistocene — about 91 of 147 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 8 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–8.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 92 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

147 occurrences of Chrysomelinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

147 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

19 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ECastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°W

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The named rock units Chrysomelinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysomelinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chrysomelinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,011 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Chrysomelinae, 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

33 references

Each of the 147 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. 21 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 Chrysomelinae

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chrysomelinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itChrysomelidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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