Opisthius richardsoni
Uncredited · 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
- OpisthiusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Opisthius richardsoni 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Opisthius richardsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Opisthius richardsoni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Opisthius richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
328 taxa- Bembidion3 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) bimaculatum3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Catops3 sites
- Colymbetes3 sites
- Gyrinus3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
- Kalissus nitidus3 sites
- Patrobus stygicus3 sites
- Saldula3 sites
- Stenus3 sites
- Acidota crenata2 sites
- Aegialia lacustris2 sites
- Agabus2 sites
- Agonum (Europhilus)2 sites
- Aphodiinae2 sites
- Apionini2 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) inaequale2 sites
- Bembidion (Notaphus) nigripes2 sites
- Byrrhus2 sites
- Carabus (Tanaocarabus) taedatus2 sites
- Chironomidae2 sites
- Chlaenius (Agostenus) interruptus2 sites
- Cytilus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Opisthius richardsoni, 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- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.2
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
Each of the 3 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 Opisthius richardsoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Opisthius richardsoni 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 itOpisthius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirby 1837