Chrysolina

Chrysolina is a large genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Chrysomelinae. Most species are distributed in Europe, Asia and Africa with a small number of species inhabiting North America and introduced species in Australia.

Chrysolina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChrysomeliniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 73 of 74 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 74 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

74 occurrences of Chrysolina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

74 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

6 formations

Edoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°W

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The named rock units Chrysolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysolina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chrysolina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

719 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Chrysolina, 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

Each of the 74 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 content2

Picture of Chrysolina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itChrysomelini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moltschulsky 1860