Phloeotribus
Phloeotribus is a genus of crenulate bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 150 described species in Phloeotribus.

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- PhloeotribiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Phloeotribus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
14 occurrences- Miocene7%
- Pleistocene93%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Phloeotribus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phloeotribus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phloeotribus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
673 taxa- Aleocharinae11 sites
- Stenus11 sites
- Scydmaeninae10 sites
- Agathidium8 sites
- Bembidion8 sites
- Arpedium cribratum7 sites
- Dytiscidae7 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus7 sites
- Helophorus6 sites
- Oropus6 sites
- Ptiliidae6 sites
- Staphylininae6 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis6 sites
- Bledius5 sites
- Chrysomelidae5 sites
- Elateridae5 sites
- Olophrum boreale5 sites
- Olophrum consimile5 sites
- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus5 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus5 sites
- Aegialia4 sites
- Agonum (Platynomicrus) ferruginosum4 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Dyschirius4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Phloeotribus, 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
6 references- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA7
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania2
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia2
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) from Dominican Republic Amber1
- The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, Wisconsin1
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phloeotribus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phloeotribus 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 itPhloeotribini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1796