Anisotoma castanea

Adam Brejnak · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- AnisotomaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 780 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 1.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anisotoma castanea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anisotoma castanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anisotoma castanea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anisotoma castanea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
207 taxa- Acidota quadrata1 site
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis1 site
- Agabinae1 site
- Agabini1 site
- Agabus1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) anthracinus1 site
- Agabus (Agabus) bifarius1 site
- Agabus (Agabus) clavicornis1 site
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) affinis1 site
- Agonum1 site
- Agonum (Europhilus) exaratum1 site
- Agrypnia pagetana1 site
- Agrypnia straminea1 site
- Aleocharinae1 site
- Amara1 site
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli1 site
- Amara brunnea1 site
- Amara pseudobrunnea1 site
- Amecocerus1 site
- Anabolia1 site
- Anoplus plantaris1 site
- Apatania crymophila1 site
- Apatania nigra1 site
- Aphodius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anisotoma castanea, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anisotoma castanea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Adam Brejnak
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Anisotoma castanea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnisotoma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herbst 1791)