Pselaphinae

Pselaphinae are a subfamily of beetles in the family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles. The group was originally regarded as a separate family named Pselaphidae. Newton and Thayer (1995) placed them in the Omaliine group of the family Staphylinidae based on shared morphological characters.

Pselaphinae

Spongymesophyll · CC BY-SA 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
StaphylinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 119 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 119 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesEocene — about 39 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 60 of 119 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–108 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 28 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 64 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Pselaphinae 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

119 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

8 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WLas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Pselaphinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pselaphinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pselaphinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Pselaphinae, 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

28 references

Each of the 119 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. 16 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 content2

Picture of Pselaphinae

Credit
Spongymesophyll
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tunosemi
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itStaphylinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1802)