Gyrohypnus punctulatus

URSchmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- GyrohypnusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gyrohypnus punctulatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gyrohypnus punctulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gyrohypnus punctulatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gyrohypnus punctulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Aleocharinae2 sites
- Amara aenea2 sites
- Anthonomus2 sites
- Aphodius2 sites
- Bagous2 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris2 sites
- Bryaxis2 sites
- Carpelimus2 sites
- Cercyon melanocephalus2 sites
- Chaetocnema2 sites
- Coelostoma orbiculare2 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus2 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus2 sites
- Haliplus2 sites
- Helodidae2 sites
- Helophorus2 sites
- Heptaulacus testudinarius2 sites
- Hydraena2 sites
- Hylesinus crenatus2 sites
- Hylesinus toranio2 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus2 sites
- Limnius volckmari2 sites
- Macronychus quadrituberculatus2 sites
- Megasternum boletophagum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gyrohypnus punctulatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Gyrohypnus punctulatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- URSchmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gyrohypnus punctulatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGyrohypnus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Paykull 1789)