Orobanus
Orobanus is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae, subfamily Omaliinae.
BIObus 2010 · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- AnthophaginiPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Orobanus 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Orobanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orobanus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Orobanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Agathidium6 sites
- Aleocharinae6 sites
- Stenus6 sites
- Scydmaeninae5 sites
- Sonoma5 sites
- Staphylininae5 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus5 sites
- Abdiunguis4 sites
- Arpedium cribratum4 sites
- Dytiscidae4 sites
- Helophorus4 sites
- Pityophthorus nitidulus4 sites
- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus4 sites
- Ptiliidae4 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis4 sites
- Artochia productifrons3 sites
- Hapalaraea3 sites
- Hydrophilidae3 sites
- Olophrum boreale3 sites
- Oropus3 sites
- Oxytelus laqueatus3 sites
- Pelecomalium testaceum3 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei3 sites
- Plateumaris neomexicana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Orobanus, 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- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA5
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia1
Each of the 6 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 Orobanus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- BIObus 2010
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Orobanus 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Orobanus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnthophagini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1878