Anthophorini

The Anthophorini are a large tribe in the subfamily Apinae of the family Apidae. Species in this tribe are often referred to as digger bees, although this common name is sometimes also applied to members of the tribe Centridini. It contains over 750 species worldwide, all of which were previously classified in the obsolete family Anthophoridae along with members of several other tribes; the vast majority of species in the tribe Anthophorini are in the genera Amegilla and Anthophora.

Anthophorini

Alvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ApinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 15 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences59.24 Mya12.8 Mya63 Mya11 Mya

15 occurrences of Anthophorini 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

15 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

7 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°E

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The named rock units Anthophorini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthophorini and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anthophorini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

765 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anthophorini, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Anthophorini

Credit
Alvesgaspar
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthophorini 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 itApinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kirby 1837)