Corticaria
Corticaria is a genus of beetles in the family Latridiidae.

S.E. Thorpe · 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
- CorticariinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
21 occurrences of Corticaria 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
21 occurrences- Eocene52%
- Oligocene10%
- Pleistocene38%
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
- Florissant Formation5
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation2
- Kap København Formation2
- Rott Formation1
- Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation1
- Oler Formation1
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The named rock units Corticaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Corticaria and its relatives
EoceneWhere Corticaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,211 taxa- Aleocharinae7 sites
- Stenus7 sites
- Limnephilidae5 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Atheta4 sites
- Bembidion4 sites
- Chrysomelidae4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Oxytelus laqueatus4 sites
- Pterostichus4 sites
- Pycnoglypta lurida4 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus4 sites
- Scolytus piceae4 sites
- Tachinus elongatus4 sites
- Arctobyrrhus subcanus3 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) bimaculatum3 sites
- Diacheila polita3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
- Hylastes nigrinus3 sites
- Kalissus nitidus3 sites
- Polygraphus rufipennis3 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)3 sites
- Revelieria groehni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Corticaria, 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
11 references- Phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography reveals the internal morphology of a new fossil species of the Corticaria-sylvicola-group (Coleoptera: Latridiidae)4
- Environmental interpretation of fossil insect assemblages from MIS 5 at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado3
- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant3
- New genera and species of Cucujiformia (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) from lowermost Eocene French amber2
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA2
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland2
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- Twenty new Coleoptera from the Florissant Shales1
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado1
- Beiträge zur kenntnis fossiler insekten aus dem braunkohlengebirge von Rott am Siebengebierge1
- Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence1
Each of the 21 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 Corticaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- S.E. Thorpe
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corticaria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Corticaria”
- 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 itCorticariinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsham 1802