Megatominae

Megatominae is a subfamily of the beetle family Dermestidae. This subfamily contains several of the most well-known household and stored-product pest beetles, in the genera Anthrenus and Trogoderma.

Megatominae

This image is created by user Dick Belgers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands. · CC BY 3.0 · 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
DermestidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 64 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 37 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 64 occurrencesMiocene122–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 33 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences113.2 Mya18.5 Mya122 Mya12 Mya

64 occurrences of Megatominae 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

64 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

5 formations

Barstow — 34.95°N, 116.81°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WChickaloon — 61.74°N, 148.95°WNaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Megatominae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megatominae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Megatominae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,594 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Megatominae, 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

28 references

Each of the 64 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. 16 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 Megatominae

Credit
This image is created by user Dick Belgers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megatominae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itDermestidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1815)