Athous
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- DendrometriniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Athous 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Athous has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Athous and its relatives
EoceneWhere Athous and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Acanthosomatidae1 site
- Agrilini1 site
- Ampedus (Octamenogonoides) gebleri1 site
- Ancyrona eocenica1 site
- Aphodiinae1 site
- Apion (Aspidapion) khnzoriani1 site
- Archaeotinodes igneusaper1 site
- Archaeotinodes petropolitana1 site
- Archaeotinodes regiomontana1 site
- Archaeotinodes rossica1 site
- Blattaria1 site
- Blattellidae1 site
- Blattidae1 site
- Brachelodes motschulskyi1 site
- Brentinae1 site
- Buprestinae1 site
- Buprestis1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Cardiophorus yatsenkokhmelevskyi1 site
- Cassidinae1 site
- Cerambycidae1 site
- Cercopoidea1 site
- Chrysomelinae1 site
- Circaeus borisjaki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Athous, 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
4 references- The fossil Elateridae of Florissant3
- Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel1
- Novye zhestkokrylye semeystva Elateridae iz baltiyskogo yantayra1
- Die Miocene flora und fauna Spitzbergens1
Each of the 6 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 Athous
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Athous 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 itDendrometrini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eschscholtz 1829