Galerucinae

Uncredited · 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
- ChrysomelidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 83 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
91 occurrences of Galerucinae 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
91 occurrences- Late Cretaceous1%
- Paleocene1%
- Eocene49%
- Oligocene13%
- Miocene10%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene23%
- Holocene1%
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
17 formations
- Florissant Formation15
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation5
- Salt Formation4
- Shanwang Formation3
- Olympia beds Formation3
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation2
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The named rock units Galerucinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Galerucinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Galerucinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
4,099 taxa- Stenus11 sites
- Aphodius9 sites
- Bembidion9 sites
- Coleoptera8 sites
- Curculionidae8 sites
- Helophorus8 sites
- Aleocharinae7 sites
- Apion7 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes7 sites
- Bledius6 sites
- Carabidae6 sites
- Chaetocnema6 sites
- Chrysomelidae6 sites
- Formicidae6 sites
- Gyrinus6 sites
- Staphylinidae6 sites
- Crepidodera tertiotertiaria5 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus5 sites
- Dyschirius5 sites
- Olophrum consimile5 sites
- Phyllobius5 sites
- Quedius5 sites
- Sitona5 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Galerucinae, 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
49 references- New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant11
- New records and species of Crepidodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Eocene European amber, with a brief review of described fossil beetles from Bitterfeld amber6
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK5
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt5
- New taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno amber, Late Eocene4
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France4
- Small and common: the oldest tropical Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the lower Eocene Cambay amber of India3
- New late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers3
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.3
- Zhang et al., 19943
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire3
- A new tribe of Galerucinae leaf beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Taimyr amber2
Each of the 91 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. 37 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 Galerucinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChrysomelidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802