Dorytomus

Dorytomus is a genus of weevils belonging the family Curculionidae and subfamily Curculioninae. It was first described by the German entomologist, Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1817.

Dorytomus

Slimguy · 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
Sits inside
DorytominaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 9 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Dorytomus on record. 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

14 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

4 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WBegunovskaya — 68.17°N, 157.75°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°E

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The named rock units Dorytomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

857 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dorytomus, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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 Dorytomus

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

No 3D scan of Dorytomus 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.

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What may have been alongside itDorytomina through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germar 1817