Donaciinae

The Donaciinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae, characterised by densely pubescent underside, generally club-shaped hind femora with one or two ventral teeth, and distinctly long antennae. They are found in mainly the Northern Hemisphere, with some species found in the Africa and Australasia.

Donaciinae

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
ChrysomelidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 285 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 285 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 285 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 285 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 285 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 285 occurrencesPleistocene — about 224 of 285 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 25 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 214 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

285 occurrences of Donaciinae 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

285 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

Uonuma — 37.29°N, 138.69°EUonuma — 37.24°N, 138.66°EUonuma — 37.23°N, 138.63°EUonuma — 37.13°N, 138.78°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°ESaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°EMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EBushi — 35.85°N, 139.38°EHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°ENogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°EOyama — 33.25°N, 130.96°EOyama — 33.25°N, 130.97°EBiraotori — 42.33°N, 143.30°EBiraotori — 42.54°N, 143.10°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.59°WTakamine — 37.93°N, 139.95°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WOokui — 36.34°N, 138.34°ECowichan Head — 49.34°N, 123.01°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°E

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The named rock units Donaciinae 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. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Donaciinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Donaciinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,618 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Donaciinae, 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

52 references

Each of the 285 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. 40 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 Donaciinae

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Donaciinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kirby 1837)