Buprestini
Buprestini is a tribe of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are about eight genera in Buprestini.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuprestinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
46 occurrences of Buprestini 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
46 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
5 formations
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation9
- Menat Formation4
- Eifel Formation4
- Messel Formation3
- Florissant Formation3
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The named rock units Buprestini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Buprestini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Buprestini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,038 taxa- Cerambycidae6 sites
- Lygaeidae6 sites
- Blattidae5 sites
- Buprestis5 sites
- Anisoptera4 sites
- Bibio4 sites
- Bibio brevis4 sites
- Bibio fusiformis4 sites
- Bibio moestus4 sites
- Buprestinae4 sites
- Camponotites lignitus4 sites
- Carabidae4 sites
- Coraebini4 sites
- Curculionini4 sites
- Rutelinae4 sites
- Scarabaeoidea4 sites
- Tenebrionidae4 sites
- Acrididae3 sites
- Aphrophora spumarioides3 sites
- Apioninae3 sites
- Capnodis antiqua3 sites
- Cercopoidea3 sites
- Cleridae3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Buprestini, 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
17 references- Systematik und Taxonomie der Buprestidae des mitteleozänen Geiseltales (Insecta, Coleoptera)6
- Heer, 18476
- Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel4
- Die Käfer (Coleoptera) aus der eozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltales4
- Piton, 19404
- Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt3
- Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia3
- Die eozäne Insektenfauna des Geiseltales2
- Some Tertiary fossil insects2
- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant2
- Heer, 18792
- Fossile Insekten aus der Rheinischen Braunkhohle2
Each of the 46 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. 5 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 content0
No picture of Buprestini was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Buprestini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Buprestini 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, “Buprestini”
- 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 itBuprestinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815