Pachymerini

Willow Warren, Department of Agriculture and Food WA · CC BY 3.0 au · 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
- palm bruchidPBDB
- Sits inside
- BruchinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
23 occurrences of Pachymerini 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Florissant Formation14
- Tranquille Formation · Kamloops Group1
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group1
- Klondike Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Pachymerini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachymerini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pachymerini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
867 taxa- Braconidae3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Ichneumonidae3 sites
- Pachymerina3 sites
- Tenthredinidae3 sites
- Vespidae3 sites
- Aculeata2 sites
- Adamsochrysa2 sites
- Apidae2 sites
- Cimbicidae2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Formica2 sites
- Halictidae2 sites
- Myrmeciinae2 sites
- Proctotrupidae2 sites
- Sphecidae2 sites
- Acalles exhumatus1 site
- Acanthognathus poinari1 site
- Acaricoris robertae1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Adamsochrysa aspera1 site
- Aenigmastacus crandalli1 site
- Agabus florissantensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pachymerini, 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
9 references- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant6
- Fossil palm beetles refine upland winter temperatures in the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum4
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado4
- A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant4
- A new genus of seed beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in Baltic amber1
- A Cretaceous palm bruchid, Mesopachymerus antiqua, n. gen., n. sp. (Coleptera: Bruchidae: Pachymerini) and biogeographical implications1
- A fossil palm bruchid, Caryobruchus dominicanus sp. n. (Pachymerini: Bruchidae) in Dominican amber1
- Oligotsenovye zernovki i dolgonosiki (Coleoptera: Bruchidae, Curculionidae) s reki Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya (Severnoe Primorye)1
- Fossile Insekten aus der Rheinischen Braunkhohle1
Each of the 23 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. 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 Pachymerini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Willow Warren, Department of Agriculture and Food WA
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 au
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pachymerini 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBruchinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bridwell 1929)