Chrysomeloidea

The Chrysomeloidea are an enormous superfamily of beetles, with tens of thousands of species. The largest families are Cerambycidae, long-horned beetles, with more than 35,000 species, and Chrysomelidae, leaf beetles, with more than 13,000 species.

Chrysomeloidea

Scott Bauer, USDA ARS · Public Domain · 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
PhytophagaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 244 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 245.19 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1009 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1009 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 1009 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 1009 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1009 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 1009 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 1009 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 1009 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 1009 occurrencesEocene — about 308 of 1009 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 72 of 1009 occurrencesMiocene — about 139 of 1009 occurrencesPliocene — about 40 of 1009 occurrencesPleistocene — about 399 of 1009 occurrences250–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–117 Mya — about 7 occurrences117–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–58 Mya — about 18 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 13 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 80 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 218 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 49 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 87 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 65 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 458 occurrences244.4 Mya11.7 ka250 Mya0 Mya

1,009 occurrences of Chrysomeloidea 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

1,009 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

71 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUonuma — 37.29°N, 138.69°EUonuma — 37.24°N, 138.66°EUonuma — 37.23°N, 138.63°EUonuma — 37.13°N, 138.78°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ETsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WSaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°EBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EBushi — 35.85°N, 139.38°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 108.14°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.75°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°ENogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°E

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The named rock units Chrysomeloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 420 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysomeloidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chrysomeloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

5,815 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 353 sites for Chrysomeloidea, and this reads 240 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

238 references

Each of the 1,009 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. 226 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 Chrysomeloidea

Credit
Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chrysomeloidea 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 itPhytophaga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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