Colymbetes

Colymbetes is a genus of beetles native to the Palearctic, including Europe, the Nearctic, the Near East and North Africa.

Colymbetes

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Colymbetes 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

20 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

7 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°E

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The named rock units Colymbetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colymbetes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Colymbetes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Colymbetes, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Colymbetes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Colymbetes 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

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 itColymbetini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clairville 1806