Olophrum fuscum

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- OlophrumPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Olophrum fuscum 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
5 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.
Olophrum fuscum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Olophrum fuscum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus3 sites
- Thalictrum flavum3 sites
- Carex2 sites
- Colymbetes2 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus2 sites
- Aleocharinae1 site
- Anotylus rugosus1 site
- Carpolithus1 site
- Cercyon tristis1 site
- Cicuta virosa1 site
- Eucnecosum brachypterum1 site
- Hydraena riparia1 site
- Mentha aquatica1 site
- Menyanthes trifoliata1 site
- Patrobus septentrionis1 site
- Ranunculus lingua1 site
- Ranunculus sceleratus1 site
- Schoenoplectus1 site
- Simplocaria (Simplocaria) semistriata1 site
- Sitona1 site
- Sparganium erectum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Olophrum fuscum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 5 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 Olophrum fuscum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Olophrum fuscum 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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What may have been alongside itOlophrum through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gravenhorst 1806)