Omaliinae

The Omaliinae are a subfamily of the Staphylinidae, rove beetles.

Omaliinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StaphylinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 272 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 272 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 272 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 272 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 272 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 272 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 272 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 272 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 272 occurrencesPleistocene — about 228 of 272 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 6 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–139 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 14 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 228 occurrences165.3 Mya129 ka174 Mya0 Mya

272 occurrences of Omaliinae 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

272 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

19 formations

Titusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.60°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WQuadra Sand — 49.23°N, 122.78°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°E

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The named rock units Omaliinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Omaliinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Omaliinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Omaliinae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

39 references

Each of the 272 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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 Omaliinae

Credit
Spongymesophyll
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Omaliinae 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.

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 itStaphylinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacLeay 1825