Dryopoidea

Byrrhoidea is a superfamily of beetles belonging to Elateriformia that includes several families which are either aquatic or associated with a semi-aquatic habitat. Other than the superfamily Hydrophiloidea, most of the remaining Polyphagan beetles which are aquatic are in this superfamily.

Dryopoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElateriformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 192 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 219 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 219 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 219 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 219 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 219 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 219 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 219 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 219 occurrencesPleistocene — about 143 of 219 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–122 Mya — about 6 occurrences122–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–95 Mya — about 15 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 24 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 144 occurrences192.9 Mya129 ka203 Mya0 Mya

219 occurrences of Dryopoidea 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

219 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

23 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.33°N, 119.13°EYixian — 41.51°N, 118.85°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°ETremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EShar-Tolgoy — 46.10°N, 100.68°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EChijinbao — 40.10°N, 97.39°EYoshino — 32.83°N, 130.64°EQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WCalcaires de Ventenac — 43.33°N, 2.07°ENingyotoge — 35.31°N, 134.00°EPalana — 27.87°N, 72.87°E

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The named rock units Dryopoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dryopoidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dryopoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,573 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Dryopoidea, 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

61 references

Each of the 219 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. 49 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 Dryopoidea

Credit
AfroBrazilian
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dryopoidea 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.