Tropiphorini

Tropiphorini is a tribe of weevils in the subfamily Entiminae.

Tropiphorini

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · 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
EntiminaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 55 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 88 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 88 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 21 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 11 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.0–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences45.9 Mya11.7 ka52 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Tropiphorini 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

88 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

8 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.10°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 41.52°N, 109.45°WGreen River — 40.03°N, 109.19°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBegunovskaya — 68.17°N, 157.75°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WCape Deceit — 66.60°N, 161.90°W

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The named rock units Tropiphorini 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.

Tropiphorini and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tropiphorini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Tropiphorini, 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 88 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 Tropiphorini

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tropiphorini 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 itEntiminae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marseul 1863