Ptinidae

Ptinidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Bostrichoidea. There are at least 220 genera and 2,200 described species in Ptinidae worldwide. The family includes spider beetles and deathwatch beetle, as well as the cigarette, drugstore and furniture beetles.

Ptinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
spider beetlePBDB
Sits inside
BostrichoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 157 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 157 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 108 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 157 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 157 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 39 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 59 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Ptinidae 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

157 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

12 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WCastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°W

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The named rock units Ptinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 120 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptinidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ptinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Ptinidae, 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

79 references

Each of the 157 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. 67 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 Ptinidae

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No 3D scan of Ptinidae 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

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

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What may have been alongside itBostrichoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802