Attagenus

Attagenus is a genus of beetles. Species of the genus are found in tropical Africa, Europe, the Near East, the Nearctic, North Africa and East Asia. There are nearly 200 species. The genus has existed for at least 99 million years, with fossils known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber and Turonian aged New Jersey amber.

Attagenus

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 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
Sits inside
AttageniniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 26 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya15.98 Mya102 Mya10 Mya

26 occurrences of Attagenus 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

26 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

2 formations

Eifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°W

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The named rock units Attagenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Attagenus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Attagenus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,274 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Attagenus, 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

18 references

Each of the 26 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Attagenus

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Attagenus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAttagenini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802