Coniocleonus
Coniocleonus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Curculionidae. The genus was first described by Motschulsky in 1860, and the species of this genus are found in Europe.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CleoniniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
29 occurrences of Coniocleonus 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
29 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Coniocleonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coniocleonus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Coniocleonus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Morychus viridis24 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus23 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)22 sites
- Poecilus nearcticus20 sites
- Stephanocleonus eruditus19 sites
- Aphodius15 sites
- Hypera ornata15 sites
- Phyllobius15 sites
- Chrysolina rufilabris12 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus11 sites
- Lepyrus nordenskioldi11 sites
- Stephanocleonus foveifrons11 sites
- Bembidion10 sites
- Stephanocleonus fossulatus9 sites
- Troglocollops arcticus9 sites
- Chrysolina subsulcata8 sites
- Harpalus amputatus amputatoides8 sites
- Tachinus arcticus8 sites
- Chrysolina tolli7 sites
- Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi7 sites
- Harpalus vittatus kiselevi7 sites
- Pterostichus sublaevis7 sites
- Sitona borealis7 sites
- Agabus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Coniocleonus, 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
2 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia28
- Revision of fossil Curculionidae (Coleoptera) from Borysław and Starunia near Lwów1
Each of the 29 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 Coniocleonus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- U.Schmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coniocleonus 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 itCleonini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Motschulsky 1860