Lucaninae

The Lucaninae comprise the largest subfamily of the stag beetles (Lucanidae).

Lucaninae

keusju · Public Domain · 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
LucanidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 17 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences121.4 Mya774 ka128 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Lucaninae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

17 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

6 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WRott — 50.60°N, 7.25°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°E

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The named rock units Lucaninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucaninae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lucaninae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Lucaninae, 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

14 references

Each of the 17 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. 2 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 Lucaninae

Credit
keusju
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lucaninae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLucanidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1804