Micropeplus punctatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicropeplusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Micropeplus punctatus 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- 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 Micropeplus punctatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micropeplus punctatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Micropeplus punctatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus6 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis6 sites
- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Oropus5 sites
- Scydmaeninae5 sites
- Stenus5 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus5 sites
- Agathidium4 sites
- Arpedium cribratum4 sites
- Dytiscidae4 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei4 sites
- Pityophthorus nitidulus4 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus4 sites
- Steremnius tuberosus4 sites
- Artochia productifrons3 sites
- Bembidion3 sites
- Elateridae3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
- Hylurgops rugipennis3 sites
- Lepidophorus alternatus3 sites
- Megarthrus3 sites
- Oxytelus laqueatus3 sites
- Pelecomalium testaceum3 sites
- Ptiliidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Micropeplus punctatus, 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
2 references- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA5
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.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 Micropeplus punctatus
- 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 Micropeplus punctatus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMicropeplus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1863