Cicindelidae

Cicindelidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
tiger beetlePBDB
Sits inside
AdephagaPBDB
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 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 15 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences145.06 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Cicindelidae 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

15 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

5 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°E

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The named rock units Cicindelidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cicindelidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cicindelidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,078 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cicindelidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Cicindelidae

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

No 3D scan of Cicindelidae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAdephaga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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