Artematopodidae

Artematopodidae is a family of soft-bodied plant beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea. They are mostly found in understory forest foliage. The life history of the group is obscure, larvae of the genera Eurypogon and Macropogon likely feed on moss, while the larvae of Artematopus have been fed insect remains. The oldest fossils of the family date to the Middle Jurassic.

Artematopodidae

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
soft bodied plant beetlePBDB
Sits inside
ElateroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 22 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154.8 Mya23.04 Mya168 Mya13 Mya

22 occurrences of Artematopodidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

22 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

3 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EShouchang — 28.50°N, 119.75°E

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The named rock units Artematopodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Artematopodidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Artematopodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,688 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Artematopodidae, 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 22 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 Artematopodidae

Credit
Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Artematopodidae 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 itElateroidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacordaire 1857