Trogidae

Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera.

Trogidae

Siga · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
hide beetlePBDB
Sits inside
ScarabaeoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Trogidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

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

7 formations

Zaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EShar-Tolgoy — 46.10°N, 100.68°EAllenby — 49.37°N, 120.59°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKiya — 56.05°N, 87.93°E

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The named rock units Trogidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trogidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Trogidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Trogidae, 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

11 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. 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 Trogidae

Credit
Siga
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trogidae 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 itScarabaeoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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