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Curculionoidea
Source Data |
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Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Curculionoidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Common Name | weevil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2,013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extant Size (PBDB) | 738 (37%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 247 - 242 Ma Triassic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | terrestrial (based on Insecta) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | chitin (based on Insecta) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Allocorynidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
Anthribidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Fungus Weevil | 103 | 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant |
Apionidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 9 | 48.6 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
Attelabidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Leaf Rolling Weevil | 73 | 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
Belidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 24 | 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
Brenthidae family | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
Brentidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 186 | 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
Caridae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
Cimberididae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 10 | 140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
Curculionidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Snout Beetle | 1,692 | 247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 0 Ma Extant |
Erirhinidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
Mesophyletidae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 65 | 105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
Nemonychidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Pine Flower Snout Beetle | 194 | 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1802 | Curculionoidea Latreille p. 195 |
1856 | Akulosamphus Aymard p. 234 |
1856 | Akulosamphus montanus Aymard p. 234 |
1877 | Loricera glacialis Scudder p. 763 |
1890 | Loricera glacialis Scudder p. 533 figs. Pl 1 figs 50, 57 |
1895 | Loricera glacialis Scudder p. 55 |
1900 | Loricera glacialis Scudder p. 17 |
Year | Name and Author |
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1981 | Curculionoidea Crowson p. 698 |
1985 | Curculionidea Whalley and Jarzembowski p. 3989 |
1995 | Curculionoidea Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 787 |
2004 | Curculionoidea Zherikhin and Gratshev |
2011 | Curculionoidea Bouchard et al. |
2015 | Curculionoidea Robertson et al. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!