Curculionoidea

Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their very long snouts. They are usually small – less than 6 mm in length – and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several families, with most of them in the family Curculionidae. It also includes bark beetles, which while morphologically dissimilar to other weevils in lacking the distinctive snout, is a subfamily of Curculionidae. Some other beetles, although not closely related, bear the name "weevil", such as the leaf beetle subfamily Bruchinae, known as "bean weevils", or the biscuit weevil, which belongs to the family Ptinidae.

Curculionoidea

Alvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
weevilPBDB
Sits inside
PhytophagaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 2513 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 9 of 2513 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 2513 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 2513 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 2513 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 201 of 2513 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 120 of 2513 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 116 of 2513 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 31 of 2513 occurrencesEocene — about 746 of 2513 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 186 of 2513 occurrencesMiocene — about 305 of 2513 occurrencesPliocene — about 18 of 2513 occurrencesPleistocene — about 735 of 2513 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 7 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–150 Mya — about 183 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 19 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 7 occurrences133–125 Mya — about 14 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 68 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 24 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 75 occurrences91–83 Mya — about 21 occurrences83–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 22 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 76 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 153 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 533 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 123 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 210 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 128 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 818 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka249 Mya0 Mya

2,513 occurrences of Curculionoidea 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

2,513 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

108 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 41.52°N, 109.45°WGreen River — 40.02°N, 109.06°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.04°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.64°N, 108.76°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 108.14°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.10°N, 119.01°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WLondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.05°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°EAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°EAmka — 59.38°N, 141.32°EMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°E

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The named rock units Curculionoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,066 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Curculionoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Curculionoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 486 sites for Curculionoidea, and this reads 240 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

385 references

Each of the 2,513 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. 373 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 Curculionoidea

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Alvesgaspar
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Curculionoidea 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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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