Ernobius

Ernobius is a genus of beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are about 90 species. Most occur in North America, Europe, and North Africa.

Ernobius

Siga · 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
ErnobiiniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 9 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya14 Mya

14 occurrences of Ernobius 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

14 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

1 formation

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°W

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The named rock units Ernobius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ernobius and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ernobius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ernobius, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 Ernobius

Credit
Siga
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ernobius was found in Sketchfab.

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 itErnobiini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1859