Buprestinae

Buprestinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following genera in the tribes Anthaxiini, Buprestini, Chrysobothrini, Melanophilini, and Xenorhipidini:

Buprestinae

Siga · Public Domain · 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
BuprestidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 171 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 171 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 171 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 171 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 171 occurrencesEocene — about 84 of 171 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 171 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 171 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 171 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 171 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 12 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 61 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 11 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences199.5 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

171 occurrences of Buprestinae 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

171 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

25 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EShar-Tolgoy — 46.10°N, 100.68°EDarmakan — 49.45°N, 129.50°EDarmakan — 49.42°N, 130.07°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EArgun — 51.71°N, 113.39°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EArkagala — 63.25°N, 146.74°EFirkanten — 78.10°N, 14.20°EEksenya-Khaya — 64.17°N, 126.33°EMaikop — 40.48°N, 49.59°EPoole — 50.65°N, 1.95°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EAtanikerluk — 70.43°N, 54.77°WTakli — 21.17°N, 79.07°E

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The named rock units Buprestinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buprestinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Buprestinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Buprestinae, 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

52 references

Each of the 171 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. 40 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 Buprestinae

Credit
Siga
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buprestinae 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 itBuprestidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815