Anomala

Anomala is a genus of shining leaf chafers in the scarab beetle family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 1,100 described species in Anomala, found in every continent except Antarctica.

Anomala

Visviva · Public Domain · 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
AnomalinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 28 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya774 ka37.7 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Anomala on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

28 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

6 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WShiake — 31.71°N, 130.41°E

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The named rock units Anomala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomala and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anomala and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

916 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Anomala, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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 Anomala

Credit
Visviva
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anomala 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 itAnomalina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Samouelle 1819