Anthonomus soporus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthonomusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Anthonomus soporus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anthonomus soporus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anthonomus soporus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anthonomus soporus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Epicaerus subterraneus4 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Epicaerus exanimis3 sites
- Epicaerus saxatilis3 sites
- Calandrites cineratius2 sites
- Calandrites defessus2 sites
- Eocaenonemonychini2 sites
- Eoerianthus multispinosus2 sites
- Epicaerus effossus2 sites
- Epicaerus eradicatus2 sites
- Epicaerus evigoratus2 sites
- Epicaerus fodinarum2 sites
- Limalophus compositus2 sites
- Lithogeraeus circumscripta2 sites
- Lystra richardsoni2 sites
- Otiorhynchites tysoni2 sites
- Parandrita vestita2 sites
- Procas vinculatus2 sites
- Sciomyza disjecta2 sites
- Sciomyza manca2 sites
- Tropiphorini2 sites
- Aegialia rupta1 site
- Alastor solidescens1 site
- Anatella tacita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anthonomus soporus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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 Anthonomus soporus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anthonomus soporus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnthonomus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890