Hydroporus

Hydroporus is a genus of water beetles native to the Palearctic, the Nearctic, the Near East, and North Africa. It contains the following species:

Hydroporus

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 47 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Hydroporus 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

47 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

10 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.25°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WCastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°W

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The named rock units Hydroporus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hydroporus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hydroporus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,676 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hydroporus, 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

14 references

Each of the 47 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Hydroporus

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hydroporus Hydroporus foveolatus · ETHZ:ENT:0576199

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

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 itHydroporini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clairville 1806