Carpelimus

Carpelimus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 100 described species in Carpelimus.

Carpelimus

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
OxyteliniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.3–633 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences633 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences16.3 Mya774 ka19 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Carpelimus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

3 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°W

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The named rock units Carpelimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Carpelimus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carpelimus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Carpelimus, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 Carpelimus

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carpelimus 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 itOxytelini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1819