Elateriformia

Elateriformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. The two largest families in this group are buprestids, of which there are around 15,000 described species, and click beetles, of which there are around 10,000 described species.

Elateriformia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolyphagaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1938 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 1938 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 10 of 1938 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 29 of 1938 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 1938 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 230 of 1938 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 139 of 1938 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 194 of 1938 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 31 of 1938 occurrencesEocene — about 665 of 1938 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 58 of 1938 occurrencesMiocene — about 152 of 1938 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 1938 occurrencesPleistocene — about 385 of 1938 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–224 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 12 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 8 occurrences191–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–175 Mya — about 12 occurrences175–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–158 Mya — about 20 occurrences158–150 Mya — about 190 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 40 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–125 Mya — about 13 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 80 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 30 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 26 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 161 occurrences91–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 30 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 19 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 220 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 428 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 36 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 78 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 86 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 423 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka249 Mya0 Mya

1,938 occurrences of Elateriformia 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

1,938 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

113 formations

Karabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.33°N, 119.13°EYixian — 41.51°N, 118.85°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.75°N, 120.80°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EZaza — 53.20°N, 112.82°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WOsinovo — 54.50°N, 87.53°EOsinovo — 54.17°N, 100.31°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°E

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The named rock units Elateriformia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 857 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elateriformia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Elateriformia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 584 sites for Elateriformia, and this reads 240 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

429 references

Each of the 1,938 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. 417 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 Elateriformia

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Chris Schuster
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elateriformia 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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crowson 1960