Macropunctum eckfeldi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacropunctumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Macropunctum eckfeldi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Macropunctum eckfeldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macropunctum eckfeldi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Macropunctum eckfeldi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Pentatomidae4 sites
- Buprestinae3 sites
- Cerambycidae3 sites
- Curculionini3 sites
- Cydnidae3 sites
- Lygaeidae3 sites
- Apioninae2 sites
- Attagenus2 sites
- Blattidae2 sites
- Buprestis2 sites
- Carabidae2 sites
- Coraebini2 sites
- Eosagra2 sites
- Geotrupidae2 sites
- Lamprosomatinae2 sites
- Lanelater nicoleae2 sites
- Lutetiabates eckfeldensis2 sites
- Plecoptera2 sites
- Rutelinae2 sites
- Staphylinidae2 sites
- Throscidae2 sites
- Trachelizini2 sites
- Aclopinae1 site
- Alticinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macropunctum eckfeldi, 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
2 references- Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel3
- Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Macropunctum (Elateridae, Pyrophorinae, Agrypnini) aus der mitteleozänen Fossillagerstätte "Eckfelder Maar" (Eifel) mit der Beschreibung einer neuen Art Macropunctum eckfeldi n. sp.1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Macropunctum eckfeldi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Macropunctum eckfeldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macropunctum eckfeldi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMacropunctum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tröster 1992