Cupedidae

The Cupedidae are a small family of beetles, notable for the square pattern of "windows" on their elytra, which give the family their common name of reticulated beetles.

Cupedidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
reticulated beetlePBDB
Sits inside
CupedoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 8 of 132 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 132 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 132 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 132 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 132 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 132 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 132 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 132 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 132 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 132 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 6 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 12 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 8 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 16 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–90 Mya — about 8 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 22 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 22 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya3.6 Mya246 Mya0 Mya

132 occurrences of Cupedidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

132 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

31 formations

Menat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDzun-Bain — 44.75°N, 101.75°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°ELa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EHanshan — 31.74°N, 118.06°EWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WRedmond — 54.69°N, 66.75°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WDalazi — 42.65°N, 129.61°EDaya — 51.88°N, 117.43°ETowaco — 40.82°N, 74.33°WHengshan — 29.71°N, 120.35°EGuyang — 41.00°N, 110.00°E

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The named rock units Cupedidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupedidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cupedidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Cupedidae, 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

51 references

Each of the 132 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. 39 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 Cupedidae

Credit
me
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laporte 1836