Hylastes gracilis
Hylastes gracilis is a species of crenulate bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HylastesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hylastes gracilis 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Hylastes gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hylastes gracilis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hylastes gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Acidota quadrata1 site
- Aegialia1 site
- Agathidium1 site
- Aleocharinae1 site
- Apion1 site
- Atrecus macrocephalus1 site
- Bembidion1 site
- Bembidion (Notaphus) dorsale1 site
- Bledius1 site
- Carphoborus1 site
- Carphoborus carri1 site
- Carphoborus vandykei1 site
- Chrysomelidae1 site
- Cryphalus ruficollis1 site
- Cymindis1 site
- Cymindis (Tarulus) cribricollis1 site
- Cytilus alternatus1 site
- Dendroctonus1 site
- Dryocoetes1 site
- Dyschirius1 site
- Dytiscidae1 site
- Elaphrus americanus1 site
- Hapalaraea1 site
- Heterocerus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hylastes gracilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Hylastes gracilis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHylastes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Le Conte 1868