Carabus
Searched as Carabus kollari comptus. The Paleobiology Database treats Carabus as the accepted name.
Carabus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, and was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.

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 most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
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.
Carabus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Carabus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,188 taxa- Bembidion14 sites
- Aphodius12 sites
- Carabidae12 sites
- Agabus10 sites
- Coleoptera9 sites
- Stenus9 sites
- Curculionidae8 sites
- Elateridae8 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)8 sites
- Staphylinidae8 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes7 sites
- Ilybius7 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle7 sites
- Phyllobius7 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus7 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus6 sites
- Chrysomelidae6 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus6 sites
- Donacia6 sites
- Dyschirius6 sites
- Gyrinus6 sites
- Helophorus6 sites
- Hypera ornata6 sites
- Morychus viridis6 sites
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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Carabus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dodoni
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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, “Carabus”
- 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 itCarabini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758