Dendroctonus

Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America; the genus name in New Latin is derived from Ancient Greek δένδρον dendron "tree", and κτόνος ktonos "murder", alluding to its ability to kill trees.

Dendroctonus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences39.7 Mya129 ka46.8 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Dendroctonus 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

4 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

2 formations

Buchanan Lake — 79.92°N, 88.97°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°W

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The named rock units Dendroctonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendroctonus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dendroctonus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dendroctonus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Dendroctonus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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 itHylurgini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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