Curculioninae

The beetle subfamily Curculioninae is part of the weevil family Curculionidae. It contains over 23,500 described species in 2,200 genera, and is therefore the largest weevil subfamily. Given that the beetle order (Coleoptera) contains about one-quarter of all known organisms, the Curculioninae represent one of the – if not the – most successful radiations of terrestrial Metazoa.

Curculioninae

Janet Graham · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CurculionidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 178 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 102 of 178 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 178 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 178 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 178 occurrencesPleistocene — about 49 of 178 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 42 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 45 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 47 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

178 occurrences of Curculioninae 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

178 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

16 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.52°N, 109.45°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 40.02°N, 109.06°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECoalmont — 40.77°N, 106.42°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBegunovskaya — 68.17°N, 157.75°ETremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Curculioninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Curculioninae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Curculioninae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Curculioninae, 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

54 references

Each of the 178 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. 42 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 Curculioninae

Credit
Janet Graham
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Curculioninae 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

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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. Latreille 1802