Tanymecini

Tanymecini is a tribe of broad-nosed weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae, subfamily Entiminae.

Tanymecini

Claude Kolwelter · 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
EntiminaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 8 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48.07 Mya7.246 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

35 occurrences of Tanymecini on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

5 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°E

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The named rock units Tanymecini 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.

Tanymecini and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Tanymecini and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

758 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Tanymecini, 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

12 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. 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 Tanymecini

Credit
Claude Kolwelter
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tanymecini 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 itEntiminae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacordaire 1863