Atomaria

Atomaria is a genus of silken fungus beetles in the family Cryptophagidae. There are more than 160 described species in Atomaria.

Atomaria

Sarefo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
AtomariiniPBDB
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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 13 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 22 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Atomaria on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

4 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°W

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The named rock units Atomaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Atomaria, 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

15 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Atomaria

Credit
Sarefo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Atomaria 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 itAtomariini through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephens 1829