Donacia cinerea
Donacia cinerea is a species of leaf beetle in the subfamily Donaciella. It can be found in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Udo Schmidt · 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
- DonaciaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Donacia cinerea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Donacia cinerea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Donacia cinerea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Donacia cinerea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Hydraena8 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes8 sites
- Aphodius7 sites
- Adelocera murina6 sites
- Dascillus cervinus6 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus6 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus6 sites
- Stenus6 sites
- Anotylus rugosus5 sites
- Dryops5 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus5 sites
- Limnius volckmari5 sites
- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus5 sites
- Plateumaris sericea5 sites
- Tanysphyrus (Tanysphyrus) lemnae5 sites
- Apion4 sites
- Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile4 sites
- Bryaxis4 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus4 sites
- Gyrinus4 sites
- Aleocharinae3 sites
- Anobium punctatum3 sites
- Cercyon3 sites
- Elmis aenea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Donacia cinerea, 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
2 references- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian6
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK2
Each of the 8 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 Donacia cinerea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Donacia cinerea 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
- 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 itDonacia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herbst 1784