Carabus

Carabus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, and was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.

Carabus

Dodoni · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CarabiniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 51 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 36 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Carabus 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

51 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

17 formations

Titusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EBushi — 35.85°N, 139.38°EOokui — 36.34°N, 138.34°EHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°ENogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WNingyotoge — 35.31°N, 134.00°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EBiraotori — 42.33°N, 143.30°EYoshino — 32.83°N, 130.64°ESaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°W

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The named rock units Carabus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carabus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carabus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Carabus, 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

27 references

Each of the 51 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. 15 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 content3

Picture of Carabus

Credit
Dodoni
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Carabus Carabus catenulatus · ETHZ:ENT:0577357

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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.

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What may have been alongside itCarabini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758