Plateumaris nitida
Plateumaris nitida is a species of aquatic leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.
Jimmy Dee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- PlateumarisPBDB
- 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 Plateumaris nitida 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.
Plateumaris nitida and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Plateumaris nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Agathidium5 sites
- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Arpedium cribratum5 sites
- Scydmaeninae5 sites
- Staphylininae5 sites
- Stenus5 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus5 sites
- Agonum (Platynomicrus) ferruginosum4 sites
- Olophrum boreale4 sites
- Oropus4 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei4 sites
- Ptiliidae4 sites
- Sonoma4 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis4 sites
- Abdiunguis3 sites
- Artochia productifrons3 sites
- Dytiscidae3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
- Hydrophilidae3 sites
- Orobanus3 sites
- Pelecomalium testaceum3 sites
- Pityophthorus nitidulus3 sites
- Plateumaris neomexicana3 sites
- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plateumaris nitida, 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 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 Plateumaris nitida
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jimmy Dee
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Plateumaris nitida 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 itPlateumaris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Germar 1811)