Bruchini

Uncredited · Attribution · 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
- BruchinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Bruchini 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
24 occurrences- Eocene63%
- Oligocene13%
- Miocene8%
- Pleistocene17%
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
- Florissant Formation14
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation2
- Green River Formation1
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation1
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The named rock units Bruchini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bruchini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bruchini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
700 taxa- Aleocharinae3 sites
- Anotylus rugosus3 sites
- Aphodius3 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris3 sites
- Bruchus exhumatus3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Heterocerus3 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes3 sites
- Limnius volckmari3 sites
- Stenus3 sites
- Tettigoniidae3 sites
- Agabus florissantensis2 sites
- Amara powellii2 sites
- Anotylus tetracarinatus2 sites
- Aphaenogaster mayri2 sites
- Aphodius granarioides2 sites
- Aspidiphorus orbiculatus2 sites
- Ataenius patescens2 sites
- Bibio wickhami2 sites
- Brachycera2 sites
- Bracon praeteritus2 sites
- Bruchidius debilis2 sites
- Bryaxis2 sites
- Carabidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Bruchini, 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
12 references- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant5
- A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant4
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK2
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England2
- Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant in the United States National Museum2
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado2
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt2
- New Species of Fossil Beetles from Florissant, Colorado1
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries1
- Fossile Insekten aus der Braunkohle von Sieblos1
- Heer, 18471
- Insectorum protogaeae specimen sistens insecta carbonum fossilium1
Each of the 24 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 Bruchini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bruchini 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBruchinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802