Pterostichini

Pterostichini is a tribe of ground beetles in the subfamily Harpalinae. There are about 180 genera and more than 3,800 described species in Pterostichini.

Pterostichini

Robert Webster Depicted place: Mayes County, US-OK, US ( 36°17′12″N 95°19′20″W / 36.286616°N 95.32225°W / 36.286616;… · 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
HarpalinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 10 of 250 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 250 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 250 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 250 occurrencesPleistocene — about 216 of 250 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 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 40 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 178 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

250 occurrences of Pterostichini 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

250 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

24 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.73°N, 79.29°WOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ENogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°ETsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WCastle Eden Fissure-Fill — 54.74°N, 1.33°WSaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WLatah — 47.69°N, 117.47°WBegunovskaya — 68.17°N, 157.75°EOokui — 36.34°N, 138.34°EHvitland Beds — 81.09°N, 89.96°WHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°EMizozono — 31.98°N, 130.74°E

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The named rock units Pterostichini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterostichini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pterostichini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,410 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Pterostichini, 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

40 references

Each of the 250 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. 28 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 Pterostichini

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Robert Webster Depicted place: Mayes County, US-OK, US ( 36°17′12″N 95°19′20″W / 36.286616°N 95.32225°W / 36.286616;…
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pterostichini was found in Sketchfab.

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonelli 1810)