Cymindis
Cymindis is a genus of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, the Near East, and North Africa. It contains the following species:Subgenus Arrhostus Motschulsky, 1864 Cymindis accentifera Zoubkoff, 1833 Cymindis andreae Ménétriés, 1832 Cymindis decora Fischer von Waldheim, 1829 Cymindis facchinii Kabak, 2006 Cymindis glabrella Bates, 1878 Cymindis klapperichi Jedlicka, 1956 Cymindis nobilis Andrewes, 1933 Cymindis picta (Pallas, 1771) Cymindis quadrisignata Ménétriés, 1848 Subgenus Baicalotarus Emetz, 1974 Cymindis collaris (Motschulsky, 1844) Cymindis rivularis (Motschulsky, 1844) Subgenus Chaetotarus Reitter, 1923 Cymindis dshungarica Jedlicka, 1967 Cymindis pilosissima Reitter, 1894 Subgenus Cymindis Latreille, 1805
Emil Hochdanz · Public Domain · 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
- CymindidinaPBDB
- 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 12.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Cymindis 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
15 occurrences- Miocene7%
- Pleistocene93%
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
4 formations
- Titusville Till Formation3
- Keremesit Formation2
- Quadra Sand Formation2
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation1
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The named rock units Cymindis 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.
Cymindis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cymindis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
578 taxa- Aphodius8 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus6 sites
- Morychus viridis6 sites
- Poecilus nearcticus6 sites
- Stephanocleonus foveifrons6 sites
- Bembidion5 sites
- Bledius5 sites
- Phyllobius5 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)5 sites
- Stephanocleonus eruditus5 sites
- Aegialia4 sites
- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Anthicus4 sites
- Coniocleonus ferrugineus4 sites
- Dyschirius4 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus4 sites
- Formicidae4 sites
- Hydrophilidae4 sites
- Hypera ornata4 sites
- Olophrum consimile4 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle4 sites
- Omaliinae4 sites
- Pityophthorus4 sites
- Quedius4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cymindis, 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
7 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia6
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania3
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia2
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
- The Pleistocene beetles of Fort River, Massachusetts1
- Notes on some coleopterous remains from the bone cave at Port Kennedy, Penna1
- Heer, 18471
Each of the 15 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 content2
Picture of Cymindis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Emil Hochdanz
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cymindis Cymindis axillaris · ETHZ:ENT:0576188
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cymindis”
- 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 itCymindidina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1806