Brentinae
Brentinae is a subfamily of sometimes called "straight-snouted weevils" in the family of beetles known as Brentidae; both were based on the type genus Brentus and erected by Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.

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
- BrentidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Brentinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 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
- Eifel Formation9
- La Toca Formation1
- Dunstan Formation · Manuherikia Group1
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The named rock units Brentinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brentinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brentinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Cerambycidae5 sites
- Pentatomidae5 sites
- Buprestinae4 sites
- Coraebini4 sites
- Curculionini4 sites
- Lygaeidae4 sites
- Macropunctum eckfeldi4 sites
- Trachelizini4 sites
- Blattellidae3 sites
- Blattidae3 sites
- Buprestis3 sites
- Carabidae3 sites
- Cleridae3 sites
- Cydnidae3 sites
- Electrapis (Eckfeldapis) electrapoides3 sites
- Lamprosomatinae3 sites
- Lanelater nicoleae3 sites
- Lutetiabates eckfeldensis3 sites
- Oecophylla eckfeldiana3 sites
- Rutelinae3 sites
- Staphylinidae3 sites
- Throscidae3 sites
- Alticinae2 sites
- Aphodiinae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Brentinae, 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
6 references- Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel5
- The oldest record of straight-snouted weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Brentidae: Brentinae) from the Eocene of Germany4
- First insects from the Manuherikia Group, early Miocene, New Zealand1
- Dominibrentus leptus, n. gen., n. sp. (Curculionoidea, Brentidae, Cyphagoginae, Dominibrentini, n. tribe), a straight-snouted weevil in Dominican amber1
- Eine neuer Kopalbrenthide1
- Observations on succinic insects. Part the second. Gums and resins1
Each of the 13 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 Brentinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Brentinae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Brentinae”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrentidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billberg 1820