Psiloptera
Psiloptera is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:Psiloptera acroptera (Pongrácz, 1935) Psiloptera anilis Gistel, 1857 Psiloptera argyrophora (Perty, 1830) Psiloptera assimilis (Gory, 1840) Psiloptera attenuata (Fabricius, 1793) Psiloptera bicarinata (Thunberg, 1789) Psiloptera cribrosa (Gory, 1840) Psiloptera ectinogonioides Cobos, 1963 Psiloptera equestris (Olivier, 1790) Psiloptera fasciata (Haupt, 1950) Psiloptera fulgida (Olivier, 1790) Psiloptera haupti Weidlich, 1987 Psiloptera hoffmanni (Laporte & Gory, 1836) Psiloptera incerta Weidlich, 1987 Psiloptera johanni Lotte, 1940 Psiloptera kerremansella Obenberger, 1926 Psiloptera maculata (Haupt, 1950) Psiloptera malleri Cobos, 1969 Psiloptera nattereri Redtenbacher, 1868 Psiloptera olivieri Saunders, 1870 Psiloptera orbignyi Lucas, 1859 Psiloptera ornata (Haupt, 1956) Psiloptera pardalis (Laporte & Gory, 1836) Psiloptera pertyi (Laporte & Gory, 1836) Psiloptera puncticollis (Haupt, 1956) Psiloptera reichei (Laporte & Gory, 1836) Psiloptera rubromarginata Chevrolat, 1838 Psiloptera schulzi (Haupt, 1950) Psiloptera signata (Haupt, 1950) Psiloptera transversovittata (Haupt, 1950)
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- DicercinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
44 occurrences of Psiloptera 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
44 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Psiloptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Psiloptera and its relatives
EoceneWhere Psiloptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Buprestinae6 sites
- Macropunctum messelense4 sites
- Dicercina3 sites
- Macropunctum eocaenicum3 sites
- Anthaxia haupti2 sites
- Anthaxia viridicyanea2 sites
- Blattodea2 sites
- Buprestis margineaurata2 sites
- Dicerca2 sites
- Eochrysomela ornata2 sites
- Eodromus agilis2 sites
- Eodromus punctatostriatus2 sites
- Eopyrophorus mixtus2 sites
- Lampetis weigelti2 sites
- Lanelater verae2 sites
- Acassidites separandus1 site
- Amechanites costatus1 site
- Anthaxia carniolica1 site
- Anthaxia geiseltalensis1 site
- Anthaxia maculipennis1 site
- Anthaxia punctifera1 site
- Anthaxia quadrimaculata1 site
- Anthaxia rubididorsa1 site
- Anthaxia weidlichi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Psiloptera, 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
6 references- Fossile Prachtkäfer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae) aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt, Teil 124
- Die Käfer (Coleoptera) aus der eozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltales8
- Die eozäne Insektenfauna des Geiseltales5
- Systematik und Taxonomie der Buprestidae des mitteleozänen Geiseltales (Insecta, Coleoptera)3
- Beitrag zur Kenntnis der eozänen Arthopodenfauna des Geiseltales3
- La faune entomologique des gisements Mio-Pliocènes du Massif Central1
Each of the 44 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 Psiloptera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Psiloptera 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Psiloptera”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDicercina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dejean 1833