Phlaeopterus
tinajiang · CC BY-NC 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.
5 occurrences of Phlaeopterus 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
5 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 Phlaeopterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phlaeopterus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phlaeopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Agathidium4 sites
- Aleocharinae4 sites
- Olophrum boreale4 sites
- Stenus4 sites
- Arpedium cribratum3 sites
- Bembidion3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Dytiscidae3 sites
- Olophrum consimile3 sites
- Staphylininae3 sites
- Trechus3 sites
- Aphodius2 sites
- Catops2 sites
- Chrysomelidae2 sites
- Hapalaraea2 sites
- Helophorus2 sites
- Lepidophorus alternatus2 sites
- Nebria sahlbergi2 sites
- Orobanus2 sites
- Patrobus fossifrons2 sites
- Phloeotribus2 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei2 sites
- Quedius2 sites
- Scydmaeninae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phlaeopterus, 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- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA3
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.1
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia1
Each of the 5 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 Phlaeopterus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- tinajiang
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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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. Motschulsky 1853