Peltodytes

Peltodytes is a genus of water beetle which is native to the Nearctic, Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. Peltodytes can generally be differentiated from the similar Haliplus by the presence of a pair of spots on the posterior margin of the pronotum. The genus Peltodytes contains the following species:Peltodytes alluaudi Guignot, 1936 Peltodytes bradleyi Young, 1961 Peltodytes caesus (Duftschmid, 1805) Peltodytes callosus (LeConte, 1852) Peltodytes congoensis Zimmermann, 1924 Peltodytes coomani Peschet, 1923 Peltodytes darlingtoni Young, 1961 Peltodytes dauricus Zimmermann, 1924 Peltodytes dietrichi Young, 1961 Peltodytes dispersus Roberts, 1913 Peltodytes dunavani Young, 1961 Peltodytes duodecimpunctatus (Say, 1823) Peltodytes edentulus (LeConte, 1863) Peltodytes festivus (Wehncke, 1876) Peltodytes floridensis Matheson, 1912 Peltodytes intermedius (Sharp, 1873) Peltodytes lengi Roberts, 1913 Peltodytes litoralis Matheson, 1912 Peltodytes mexicanus (Wehncke, 1883) Peltodytes muticus (LeConte, 1863) Peltodytes nodieri Guignot, 1936 Peltodytes oppositus Roberts, 1913 Peltodytes ovalis Zimmermann, 1924 Peltodytes pedunculatus (Blatchley, 1910) Peltodytes pekinensis Vondel, 1992 Peltodytes quadratus Régimbart, 1895 Peltodytes rotundatus (Aubé, 1836) Peltodytes sexmaculatus Roberts, 1913 Peltodytes shermani Roberts, 1913 Peltodytes simplex (LeConte, 1852) Peltodytes sinensis (Hope, 1845) Peltodytes speratus Régimbart, 1906 Peltodytes sumatrensis Régimbart, 1885 Peltodytes tamaulipensis Young, 1964 Peltodytes tortulosus Roberts, 1913

Peltodytes

David R. Madison · 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
HaliplidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya93.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Peltodytes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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

1 formation

Redmond — 54.69°N, 66.75°W

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The named rock units Peltodytes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Peltodytes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Peltodytes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Peltodytes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Peltodytes

Credit
David R. Madison
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peltodytes 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

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 itHaliplidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Regimbart 1878