Kalissus nitidus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KalissusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Kalissus nitidus 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
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 Kalissus nitidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kalissus nitidus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Kalissus nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
403 taxa- Stenus6 sites
- Helophorus5 sites
- Bembidion4 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) bimaculatum4 sites
- Bledius4 sites
- Patrobus stygicus4 sites
- Agonum3 sites
- Aleocharinae3 sites
- Amara3 sites
- Byrrhus3 sites
- Camponotus3 sites
- Catops3 sites
- Chrysolina3 sites
- Colymbetes3 sites
- Corticaria3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
- Gyrinus3 sites
- Ilybius3 sites
- Notiophilus aquaticus3 sites
- Olophrum consimile3 sites
- Opisthius richardsoni3 sites
- Plateumaris3 sites
- Pterostichus3 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kalissus nitidus, 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- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.2
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland2
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA1
- Two new species of Micropeplus from the Pliocene of western Alaska with remarks on the evolution of Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)1
Each of the 6 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 Kalissus nitidus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Kalissus nitidus 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 itKalissus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1874