Nitidulidae

The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family of beetles.

Nitidulidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
sap beetlePBDB
Sits inside
NitiduloideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 101 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 101 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 101 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 101 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 101 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 101 occurrencesEocene — about 36 of 101 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 101 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 101 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 101 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 101 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 30 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences199.5 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

101 occurrences of Nitidulidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

101 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

Menat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EJiulongshan — 40.91°N, 118.32°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Nitidulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nitidulidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nitidulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,192 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Nitidulidae, 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

40 references

Each of the 101 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. 28 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 Nitidulidae

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 Nitidulidae 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 itNitiduloidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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