Blethisa catenaria
Blethisa catenaria is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia and North America.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlethisaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Blethisa catenaria on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Blethisa catenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Blethisa catenaria and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Blethisa catenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Bembidion5 sites
- Olophrum consimile5 sites
- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Carabidae4 sites
- Dyschirius4 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus4 sites
- Eucnecosum4 sites
- Eucnecosum brunnescens4 sites
- Helophorus4 sites
- Mycetoporus4 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle4 sites
- Omaliinae4 sites
- Patrobus stygicus4 sites
- Staphylinidae4 sites
- Stenus4 sites
- Bembidion morulum3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Carphoborus andersoni3 sites
- Catops3 sites
- Cytilus alternatus3 sites
- Dytiscidae3 sites
- Euaesthetinae3 sites
- Gymnusa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Blethisa catenaria, 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
3 references- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania3
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Blethisa catenaria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Blethisa catenaria 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBlethisa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1944