Curculionidae

The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. At the present state of documentation, they are the largest animal family with approximately 6,000 genera and 77,000 species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae.

Curculionidae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
snout beetlePBDB
Sits inside
CurculionoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1767 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1767 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1767 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 1767 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 1767 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1767 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 1767 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 1767 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 1767 occurrencesEocene — about 556 of 1767 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 158 of 1767 occurrencesMiocene — about 244 of 1767 occurrencesPliocene — about 17 of 1767 occurrencesPleistocene — about 695 of 1767 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 17 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 67 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 121 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 383 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 104 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 167 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 102 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 774 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka249 Mya0 Mya

1,767 occurrences of Curculionidae 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

1,767 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

74 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 40.02°N, 109.06°WGreen River — 41.52°N, 109.45°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.04°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 108.14°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WLondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.05°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°EMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°W

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The named rock units Curculionidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 813 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Curculionidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Curculionidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

5,978 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 440 sites for Curculionidae, 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

266 references

Each of the 1,767 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. 254 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 content2

Picture of Curculionidae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCurculionoidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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