Diacheila polita
Diacheila polita is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia, North America, and Southern Asia.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiacheilaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Diacheila polita 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
8 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.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Diacheila polita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diacheila polita and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Diacheila polita and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
322 taxa- Pterostichus (Cryobius)8 sites
- Bembidion7 sites
- Agabus6 sites
- Morychus viridis6 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus5 sites
- Hydroporus5 sites
- Phyllobius5 sites
- Hypera ornata4 sites
- Lepyrus nordenskioldi4 sites
- Poecilus nearcticus4 sites
- Simplocaria basalis4 sites
- Stenus4 sites
- Stephanocleonus eruditus4 sites
- Tachinus4 sites
- Aphodius3 sites
- Bolitobius3 sites
- Carabus (Aulonocarabus) truncaticollis3 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus3 sites
- Chrysolina3 sites
- Corticaria3 sites
- Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi3 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus3 sites
- Grypus equiseti3 sites
- Notiophilus aquaticus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diacheila polita, 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
2 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia6
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland2
Each of the 8 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 Diacheila polita
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Diacheila polita 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 itDiacheila through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Faldermann 1835)