Harpalus nero
Nicolas Théobald · 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
- HarpalusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Harpalus nero on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Harpalus nero 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.
Harpalus nero and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Harpalus nero and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Entimini4 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus2 sites
- Bibio2 sites
- Bibionidae2 sites
- Chironomus aquisextanus2 sites
- Cicadatra serresi2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis2 sites
- Diptera2 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio2 sites
- Metacanthus (Megalomerium) serratum2 sites
- Pimpla anomalensis2 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana2 sites
- Plecia2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
- Plecia lygaeoides2 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus2 sites
- Xylophagidae2 sites
- Acheta1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Allodia pallipes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Harpalus nero, 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
4 references- Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea)1
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France1
- Les insectes fossiles du Puy-de-Mur (Limagne)1
- Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, deuxième partie, insectes fossiles d'Aix en Provence1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Picture of Harpalus nero
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nicolas Théobald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Harpalus nero was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHarpalus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oustalet 1874