Olophrum boreale
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlophrumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Olophrum boreale 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
14 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Olophrum boreale 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.
Olophrum boreale and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Olophrum boreale and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
614 taxa- Stenus10 sites
- Aleocharinae9 sites
- Agathidium8 sites
- Aphodius8 sites
- Arpedium cribratum8 sites
- Bembidion7 sites
- Helophorus7 sites
- Olophrum consimile6 sites
- Scydmaeninae6 sites
- Bledius5 sites
- Catops5 sites
- Dytiscidae5 sites
- Staphylininae5 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus5 sites
- Elateridae4 sites
- Hydrophilidae4 sites
- Pelenomus squamosus4 sites
- Phlaeopterus4 sites
- Plateumaris nitida4 sites
- Staphylinidae4 sites
- Abdiunguis3 sites
- Agonum (Platynomicrus) ferruginosum3 sites
- Artochia productifrons3 sites
- Chrysomelidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Olophrum boreale, 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
6 references- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA9
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Environmental interpretation of fossil insect assemblages from MIS 5 at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado1
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania1
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 14 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 Olophrum boreale
- 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 Olophrum boreale 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Paykull 1792)