Lathrobium
Lathrobium is a genus of rove beetles.

S.E. Thorpe · CC0 · 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
- LathrobiinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.
33 occurrences of Lathrobium 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
33 occurrences- Eocene27%
- Miocene21%
- Pleistocene52%
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
- Scarborough Formation7
- Shanwang Formation5
- Green River Formation3
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation3
- Imuruk Volcanics Formation1
- Florissant Formation1
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The named rock units Lathrobium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lathrobium and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lathrobium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,848 taxa- Stenus11 sites
- Aphodius8 sites
- Bembidion6 sites
- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Apion5 sites
- Gyrinus5 sites
- Helophorus5 sites
- Tanysphyrus (Tanysphyrus) lemnae5 sites
- Adelocera murina4 sites
- Anotylus rugosus4 sites
- Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile4 sites
- Bryaxis4 sites
- Calosoma maderae4 sites
- Camponotites shanwangensis4 sites
- Carpelimus4 sites
- Cerambycidae4 sites
- Colymbetes4 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Donacia4 sites
- Hydraena4 sites
- Hylobius plenus4 sites
- Limnius volckmari4 sites
- Limois shanwangensis4 sites
- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Lathrobium, 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
18 references- Canadian fossil insects, 4. Additions to the coleopterous fauna of the interglacial clays of the Toronto district6
- A new genus and new species of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic amber4
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK3
- Zhang, 19893
- Environmental interpretation of fossil insect assemblages from MIS 5 at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado2
- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian2
- The Tertiary Insects of North America2
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
- Zhang et al., 19941
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia1
- Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang1
Each of the 33 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. 6 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 content1
Picture of Lathrobium
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- S.E. Thorpe
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lathrobium was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lathrobium”
- 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 itLathrobiina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gravenhorst 1802