Megachilinae

Megachilinae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Also called
mason beePBDB
Sits inside
MegachilidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 210 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 14 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 61 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 72 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 72 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 22 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 30 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya210 ka57 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Megachilinae 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

72 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

8 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ELatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Megachilinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megachilinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Megachilinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,098 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Megachilinae, 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

31 references

Each of the 72 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. 19 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 Megachilinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Megachilinae 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 itMegachilidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802