Bolitobius
Bolitobius is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
Francisco Welter-Schultes · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- MycetoporinaePBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Bolitobius 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
4 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 Bolitobius 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.
Bolitobius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bolitobius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
285 taxa- Agabus3 sites
- Bembidion3 sites
- Diacheila polita3 sites
- Phyllobius3 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)3 sites
- Simplocaria basalis3 sites
- Tachinus3 sites
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli2 sites
- Anthicus2 sites
- Aphodius2 sites
- Blethisa catenaria2 sites
- Carabus (Aulonocarabus) truncaticollis2 sites
- Ceutorhynchus2 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus2 sites
- Corticaria2 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus2 sites
- Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi2 sites
- Dorytomus (Arctolamus) imbecillus2 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus2 sites
- Hydroporus2 sites
- Hydrothassa hannoveriana2 sites
- Hypera ornata2 sites
- Isochnus arcticus2 sites
- Laccobius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bolitobius, 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
2 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia3
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
Each of the 4 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 Bolitobius
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Francisco Welter-Schultes
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bolitobius 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bolitobius”
- 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 itMycetoporinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1819