Pelophila borealis
Pelophila borealis, the boreal mud-loving beetle, is a species of ground beetle in Nebriinae subfamily which was described by Gustaf von Paykull in 1790. The species can be found in Belarus, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. It is black in colour and is shiny. The species ranges from 9.5–10.1 millimetres (0.37–0.40 in) in length.
Yves Bousquet · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- PelophilaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Pelophila borealis 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 Pelophila borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pelophila borealis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pelophila borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
393 taxa- Bembidion3 sites
- Cercyon3 sites
- Quedius3 sites
- Acidota crenata2 sites
- Amara interstitialis2 sites
- Anotylus gibbulus2 sites
- Anthicus2 sites
- Aphodius2 sites
- Bledius2 sites
- Catops2 sites
- Ceutorhynchus2 sites
- Colymbetes paykulli2 sites
- Dyschiriodes nigricornis2 sites
- Elaphrus riparius2 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes2 sites
- Ilybius2 sites
- Laccobius2 sites
- Leiodes2 sites
- Notaris aethiops2 sites
- Notiophilus aquaticus2 sites
- Olophrum boreale2 sites
- Oxytelus2 sites
- Philonthus2 sites
- Phyllobius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pelophila borealis, 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
3 references- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
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. 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 content2
Picture of Pelophila borealis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Yves Bousquet
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pelophila Pelophila borealis · ETHZ:ENT:0576598
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
- 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 itPelophila through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Paykull 1790)