Nemonychidae

Nemonychidae is a small family of weevils, placed within the primitive weevil group because they have straight rather than geniculate (elbowed) antennae. They are often called pine flower weevils. As in the Anthribidae, the labrum appears as a separate segment to the clypeus, and the maxillary palps are long and projecting. Nemonychidae have all ventrites free, while Anthribidae have ventrites 1-4 connate or partially fused. Nemonychidae lack lateral carinae on the pronotum, while these are usually present, though may be short, in Anthribidae.

Nemonychidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
pine flower snout beetlePBDB
Sits inside
CurculionoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 103 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 209 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 150 of 209 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 209 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 209 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 209 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 209 occurrencesEocene168–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 96 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 51 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–139 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 13 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 13 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 15 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences154.8 Mya51.1 Mya168 Mya44 Mya

209 occurrences of Nemonychidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

209 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

18 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.10°N, 119.01°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°ESharin-Gol — 45.35°N, 109.85°EAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°ETsagaantsav — 44.52°N, 109.45°EUlugei — 44.42°N, 104.13°EHuhtyk — 49.05°N, 111.05°ELulworth — 50.53°N, 2.44°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EDalazi — 42.65°N, 129.61°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.42°WJiulongshan — 41.32°N, 119.24°E

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The named rock units Nemonychidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nemonychidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Nemonychidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

3,055 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Nemonychidae, 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

39 references

Each of the 209 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. 27 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 Nemonychidae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Vn assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nemonychidae 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.

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 itCurculionoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bedel 1882