Rutelinae

Rutelinae or shining leaf chafers is a subfamily of the scarab beetles. It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains some 200 genera with over 4,000 described species in 7 tribes. Several taxa have yet to be described. A few recent classifications include the tribe Hopliini, but this is not generally accepted.

Rutelinae

Notafly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ScarabaeidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 7 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 44 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Rutelinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

44 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

10 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°EPoole — 50.67°N, 2.09°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EYanagida — 37.52°N, 137.24°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WShiake — 31.71°N, 130.41°E

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The named rock units Rutelinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rutelinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rutelinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Rutelinae, 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

18 references

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. 6 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 Rutelinae

Credit
Notafly
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rutelinae 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 itScarabaeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacLeay 1819)