Plateumaris

Plateumaris

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Also called
reed leaf beetlePBDB
Sits inside
PlateumariniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 11 of 108 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 108 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 108 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 108 occurrencesPleistocene — about 90 of 108 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 74 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

108 occurrences of Plateumaris 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

108 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

19 formations

Uonuma — 37.29°N, 138.69°EUonuma — 37.24°N, 138.66°EUonuma — 37.23°N, 138.63°EUonuma — 37.13°N, 138.78°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°EBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EBushi — 35.85°N, 139.38°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBiraotori — 42.33°N, 143.30°EBiraotori — 42.54°N, 143.10°ENogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°EOyama — 33.25°N, 130.96°EOyama — 33.25°N, 130.97°EOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WTakamine — 37.93°N, 139.95°ETenoko — 37.94°N, 139.96°EOokui — 36.34°N, 138.34°EHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°EShibusan — 42.95°N, 143.10°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°EHachiya — 35.48°N, 137.11°E

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The named rock units Plateumaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plateumaris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Plateumaris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

998 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Plateumaris, 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

26 references

Each of the 108 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Plateumaris

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Plateumaris 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlateumarini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1859