Taldycupedidae

Taldycupedidae is an extinct family of beetles primarily known from the Permian period.

Taldycupedidae

Xianye Zhao, Yilun Yu, Matthew E Clapham, Evgeny Yan, Jun Chen, Edmund A Jarzembowski, Xiangdong Zhao, Bo Wang · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MetacoleopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Permian — about 27 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 35 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 35 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous278–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–261 Mya — about 5 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 12 occurrences255–250 Mya — about 9 occurrences227–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–171 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266.9 Mya121.4 Mya278 Mya110 Mya

35 occurrences of Taldycupedidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

35 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

14 formations

Gramoteinskaya — 54.21°N, 86.90°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EKazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.92°N, 87.25°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°EEstcourt — 29.33°S, 30.00°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.17°EVokhma — 60.10°N, 45.51°EDegali — 62.25°N, 105.29°EAkkolka — 47.27°N, 85.40°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EAmanak — 51.88°N, 54.84°EYinping — 31.50°N, 117.79°ELengshuiwu — 28.50°N, 117.47°EWuchang — 30.14°N, 114.83°EXiahuayuan — 40.00°N, 114.56°E

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The named rock units Taldycupedidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Taldycupedidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Taldycupedidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

620 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Taldycupedidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 Taldycupedidae

Credit
Xianye Zhao, Yilun Yu, Matthew E Clapham, Evgeny Yan, Jun Chen, Edmund A Jarzembowski, Xiangdong Zhao, Bo Wang
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taldycupedidae 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 itMetacoleoptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rohdendorf 1961)