Lycidae

The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions.

Lycidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
net-winged beetlePBDB
Sits inside
ElateroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 22 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence93.9 Mya20.45 Mya102 Mya12 Mya

22 occurrences of Lycidae 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

22 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

3 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.62°W

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The named rock units Lycidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lycidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,462 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Lycidae, 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

18 references

Each of the 22 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. 6 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 Lycidae

Credit
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Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itElateroidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laporte 1836