Carabites

Carabites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarabidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 196 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 28 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 28 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences199.5 Mya2.58 Mya205 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Carabites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

28 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

13 formations

Poole — 50.67°N, 2.09°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WFox Hills — 44.94°N, 101.73°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKutinskaya — 50.12°N, 116.68°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°ECoalmont — 40.44°N, 106.48°WMaíz Gordo — 24.20°S, 64.30°WBrjánslækur-Seljá — 65.53°N, 23.24°WPavy — 81.74°N, 64.40°WMargas Verdes — 23.53°S, 65.02°W

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The named rock units Carabites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carabites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carabites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

889 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Carabites, 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

23 references

Each of the 28 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. 11 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 Carabites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carabites 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1852