Dromaeolus

Christina Butler · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- MacraulaciniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
2 occurrences of Dromaeolus on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 the same rock
64 taxa- Archeofulvius gulosus1 site
- Arisus1 site
- Ascidae1 site
- Asiocnemis1 site
- Aulonothroscus1 site
- Balistica1 site
- Balistica mimae1 site
- Balistica serrulata1 site
- Balticeler kerneggeri1 site
- Balticoroma ernstorum1 site
- Baltonychia obscura1 site
- Ceratus wotani1 site
- Dermestes (Dermestes) progenitor1 site
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) meunieri1 site
- Dvergrphasma fafnir1 site
- Dyscharachthis dominicana1 site
- Dyscharachthis freiae1 site
- Dyscharachthis woglindae1 site
- Elektroberotha groehni1 site
- Eoleptoneta kutscheri1 site
- Eotemnothorax foveocephalus1 site
- Eotemnothorax punctatus1 site
- Eotemnothorax rectispinus1 site
- Episinus balticus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dromaeolus, 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- The false click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Eucnemidae) of the Dominican Republic. Part I: A look into the past1
- Eucnemidae and Throscidae from Baltic amber (Coleoptera)1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dromaeolus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Christina Butler
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dromaeolus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMacraulacini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kiesenwetter 1858