Cucujoidea

Cucujoidea is a superfamily of beetles. This group formerly included all of the families now included in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. They include some fungus beetles and a diversity of lineages of "bark beetles" unrelated to the "true" bark beetles (Scolytinae), which are weevils.

Cucujoidea

Edmund Reitter · 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
CucujiformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 127 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 127 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 127 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 127 occurrencesEocene — about 64 of 127 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 127 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 127 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 127 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 12 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 11 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 44 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences149.2 Mya11.7 ka158 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Cucujoidea 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

127 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

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WTurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EGidarinskaya — 51.31°N, 119.61°EShixi — 28.30°N, 117.87°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WLa Huitrera — 41.16°S, 70.83°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°E

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The named rock units Cucujoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cucujoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cucujoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Cucujoidea, 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

89 references

Each of the 127 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. 77 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 Cucujoidea

Credit
Edmund Reitter
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cucujoidea 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 itCucujiformia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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