Oropus
Oropus is a genus of ant-loving beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Oropus.
No picture of Oropus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrogastrinaPBDB
- 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.
9 occurrences of Oropus 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
9 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.
Oropus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Oropus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Aleocharinae9 sites
- Scydmaeninae9 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus9 sites
- Agathidium8 sites
- Arpedium cribratum8 sites
- Stenus8 sites
- Dytiscidae7 sites
- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus7 sites
- Ptiliidae7 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis7 sites
- Pelecomalium testaceum6 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei6 sites
- Elateridae5 sites
- Lepidophorus alternatus5 sites
- Micropeplus punctatus5 sites
- Pityophthorus nitidulus5 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus5 sites
- Sonoma5 sites
- Staphylininae5 sites
- Helophorus4 sites
- Plateumaris nitida4 sites
- Stephostethus4 sites
- Steremnius tuberosus4 sites
- Abdiunguis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oropus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Oropus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrogastrina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1886