Curimopsis
Curimopsis is a genus of pill beetles in the family Byrrhidae. There are more than 30 described species in Curimopsis.

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 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
- SyncalyptinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Curimopsis 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
5 formations
- Titusville Till Formation2
- Kap København Formation1
- Oler Formation1
- Edoma Formation1
- Olympia beds Formation1
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The named rock units Curimopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Curimopsis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Curimopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
366 taxa- Bembidion8 sites
- Stenus7 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)6 sites
- Bledius5 sites
- Agabus4 sites
- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus4 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus4 sites
- Hypera ornata4 sites
- Morychus viridis4 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle4 sites
- Patrobus stygicus4 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus4 sites
- Aegialia3 sites
- Carabidae3 sites
- Chrysomelidae3 sites
- Coniocleonus ferrugineus3 sites
- Diacheila polita3 sites
- Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Curimopsis, 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
5 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia4
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania2
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
- The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, Wisconsin1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Curimopsis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Curimopsis”
- 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 itSyncalyptinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ganglbauer 1902