Buprestoidea

Buprestoidea is a superfamily of beetles.

Buprestoidea

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
ElateriformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 401 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 401 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 401 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 401 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 59 of 401 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 401 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 401 occurrencesEocene — about 182 of 401 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 401 occurrencesMiocene — about 53 of 401 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 401 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 401 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 4 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 7 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 11 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 32 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 14 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 22 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 41 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 115 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 26 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 23 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 40 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

401 occurrences of Buprestoidea 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

401 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

48 formations

Messel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WAnda-Khuduk — 45.39°N, 101.84°EOsinovo — 54.17°N, 100.31°EShar-Tolgoy — 46.10°N, 100.68°EArgun — 51.71°N, 113.39°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDarmakan — 49.45°N, 129.50°EDarmakan — 49.42°N, 130.07°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°ELa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°E

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The named rock units Buprestoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 126 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buprestoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Buprestoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

5,706 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 162 sites for Buprestoidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

95 references

Each of the 401 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. 83 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 Buprestoidea

Credit
Siga
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buprestoidea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815