Pterostichus abrogatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterostichusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Pterostichus abrogatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pterostichus abrogatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pterostichus abrogatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pterostichus abrogatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Patrobus stygicus3 sites
- Platynus desuetus3 sites
- Anthonomus fossilis2 sites
- Arpedium stillicidii2 sites
- Bembidium vanum2 sites
- Hydroporus sectus2 sites
- Platynus halli2 sites
- Pterostichus destructus2 sites
- Pterostichus fractus2 sites
- Acidota crenata nigra1 site
- Aegialia lacustris1 site
- Agabus perditus1 site
- Agonum abstractum1 site
- Anthonomus eversus1 site
- Anthonomus lapsus1 site
- Bembidion damnosum1 site
- Bembidium expletum1 site
- Bembidium glaciatum1 site
- Bembidium praeteritum1 site
- Bembidium vestigium1 site
- Bledius glaciatus1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Centrinus disjunctus1 site
- Cryptobium cinctum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pterostichus abrogatus, 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
2 references- Canadian fossil insects, 4. Additions to the coleopterous fauna of the interglacial clays of the Toronto district2
- The Tertiary Insects of North America1
Each of the 3 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 Pterostichus abrogatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Pterostichus abrogatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPterostichus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890