Macronychus quadrituberculatus

G.G. Yakobson · Public Domain · 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
- MacronychusPBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Macronychus quadrituberculatus 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
7 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 Macronychus quadrituberculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macronychus quadrituberculatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Macronychus quadrituberculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Aleocharinae7 sites
- Aphodius7 sites
- Bagous7 sites
- Bryaxis7 sites
- Carpelimus7 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus7 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus7 sites
- Helodidae7 sites
- Hydraena7 sites
- Limnius volckmari7 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes7 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus7 sites
- Pelochares versicolor7 sites
- Pomatinus substriatus7 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus7 sites
- Riolus nitens7 sites
- Stenus7 sites
- Anotylus rugosus6 sites
- Elmis aenea6 sites
- Helophorus6 sites
- Limnichus pygmaeus6 sites
- Melanotus punctolineatus6 sites
- Ochthebius minimus6 sites
- Orectochilus villosus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Macronychus quadrituberculatus, 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 7 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 Macronychus quadrituberculatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- G.G. Yakobson
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Macronychus quadrituberculatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMacronychus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1806