Dermestidae

Dermestidae are a family of Coleoptera that are commonly referred to as skin beetles or carpet beetles. Other common names include larder beetles, hide or leather beetles, and khapra beetles. There are over 1,800 species described.

Dermestidae

Didier Descouens · 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
skin beetlePBDB
Sits inside
BostrichoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 143 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 143 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 143 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 143 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 143 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 143 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 143 occurrencesEocene — about 83 of 143 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 143 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 143 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 143 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 143 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 21 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 73 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

143 occurrences of Dermestidae 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

143 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

19 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMorrison — 44.54°N, 107.78°WMorrison — 40.46°N, 108.39°WBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ETwo Medicine — 48.91°N, 112.64°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.81°WBaruungoyot — 43.51°N, 101.06°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EChickaloon — 61.74°N, 148.95°WNaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°ESînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.92°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.57°N, 101.33°W

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The named rock units Dermestidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dermestidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dermestidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Dermestidae, 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

62 references

Each of the 143 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. 50 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 Dermestidae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dermestidae 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBostrichoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1804