Cytilus

Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

Sits inside

ByrrhiniPBDB

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

• Eocene7%
• Pleistocene87%
• Holocene7%

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.

Where Cytilus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Stenus11 sites
• Bembidion10 sites
• Aleocharinae9 sites
• Bledius8 sites
• Helophorus8 sites
• Dyschirius7 sites
• Elateridae7 sites
• Notaris aethiops7 sites
• Quedius7 sites
• Aphodius6 sites
• Ochthebius6 sites
• Olophrum consimile6 sites
• Pselaphinae6 sites
• Aegialia5 sites
• Apion5 sites
• Catops5 sites
• Chrysomelidae5 sites
• Formicidae5 sites
• Omaliinae5 sites
• Patrobus stygicus5 sites
• Scydmaeninae5 sites
• Trichoptera5 sites
• Acidota crenata4 sites
• Arpedium cribratum4 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cytilus, 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.

• Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, PennsylvaniaCong et al., 1996 · Quaternary Research · journal article4
• The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.Ashworth and Nelson, 2014 · Quaternary International · journal article3
• Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USACong and Ashworth, 1996 · Journal of Quaternary Science · journal article3
• Pill beetles (Coleoptera, Byrrhidae) in late Pleistocene deposits in the south of the west SiberiaTshernyshev et al., 2013 · Euroasian Entomological Journal · journal article1
• Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British ColumbiaMiller et al., 1985 · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · journal article1
• The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, WisconsinMorgan and Morgan, 1979 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, WorcestershireCoope et al., 1961 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences · journal article1
• Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North AmericaScudder, 1900 · Monographs of the United States Geological Survey · serial monograph1

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erichson 1847