Galerucinae

The Galerucinae are a large subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), containing about 15,000 species in more than 1,000 genera, of which about 500 genera and about 8,000 species make up the flea beetle tribe Alticini.

Galerucinae

Linda Tanner · CC BY 2.0 · 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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 91 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 91 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 91 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 91 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 91 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 28 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 15 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

91 occurrences of Galerucinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

91 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

17 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EAllenby — 49.37°N, 120.59°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°EQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°E

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The named rock units Galerucinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galerucinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Galerucinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,099 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Galerucinae, 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

49 references

Each of the 91 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. 37 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 Galerucinae

Credit
Linda Tanner
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galerucinae 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

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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. Latreille 1802