Geotrupes

Geotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 30 described species in Geotrupes.

Geotrupes

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 15 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Geotrupes on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

8 formations

Rott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°E

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The named rock units Geotrupes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geotrupes and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Geotrupes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Geotrupes, 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

13 references

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. 1 further reference is not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Geotrupes

Credit
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Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Geotrupes 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

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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 itGeotrupini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1796