Nicrophorini

Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.

Nicrophorini

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 29 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 29 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Nicrophorini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

29 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

2 formations

Yixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EJinju — 35.13°N, 128.10°E

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The named rock units Nicrophorini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nicrophorini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nicrophorini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Nicrophorini, 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

8 references

Each of the 29 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. 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 Nicrophorini

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nicrophorini 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 itSilphinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kirby 1837)