Corylophinae

S.E. Thorpe · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- CorylophidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 129 ka.
13 occurrences of Corylophinae 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous15%
- Eocene46%
- 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
2 formations
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation4
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group1
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The named rock units Corylophinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Corylophinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Corylophinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,967 taxa- Stenus7 sites
- Aphodius5 sites
- Bryaxis5 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus5 sites
- Hydraena5 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus5 sites
- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Anotylus rugosus4 sites
- Apion4 sites
- Bagous4 sites
- Carpelimus4 sites
- Corylophus cassidoides4 sites
- Helodidae4 sites
- Helophorus4 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus4 sites
- Limnius volckmari4 sites
- Onthophilus striatus4 sites
- Orectochilus villosus4 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes4 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus4 sites
- Pelochares versicolor4 sites
- Pselaphaulax dresdensis4 sites
- Rhamphus pulicarius4 sites
- Agrilus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Corylophinae, 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- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK4
- Clypastraea primainterpares sp. nov. - the first fossil minute hooded beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Corylophidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene, Tertiary)3
- X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber2
- Earliest fossil record of Corylophidae from Burmese amber and phylogeny of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea)2
- The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England1
- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian1
Each of the 13 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 Corylophinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- S.E. Thorpe
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corylophinae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCorylophidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1852