Ochthebius

Ochthebius is a genus of minute moss beetles in the family Hydraenidae. There are at least 460 described species in Ochthebius.

Ochthebius

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
OchthebiinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 29 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Ochthebius 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

29 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

6 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WFirkanten — 78.10°N, 14.20°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Ochthebius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ochthebius and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ochthebius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Ochthebius, 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

11 references

Each of the 29 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. 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 Ochthebius

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ochthebius 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.

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 itOchthebiina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815