Pterostichus sublaevis
Pterostichus sublaevis is a species of woodland ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia and North America.

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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 least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Pterostichus sublaevis 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
9 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pterostichus sublaevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pterostichus sublaevis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pterostichus sublaevis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Curtonotus alpinus9 sites
- Morychus viridis9 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)9 sites
- Phyllobius7 sites
- Poecilus nearcticus7 sites
- Stephanocleonus eruditus7 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus6 sites
- Hypera ornata6 sites
- Aphodius5 sites
- Bembidion5 sites
- Coniocleonus ferrugineus5 sites
- Lepyrus nordenskioldi5 sites
- Loborhynchapion amethystinum5 sites
- Agabus4 sites
- Isochnus arcticus4 sites
- Tachinus arcticus4 sites
- Agathidium marginatum3 sites
- Carabus (Aulonocarabus) truncaticollis3 sites
- Chrysolina rufilabris3 sites
- Coniocleonus3 sites
- Curimopsis cyclolepidia3 sites
- Diacheila polita3 sites
- Dicheirotrichus mannerheimi3 sites
- Harpalus vittatus kiselevi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pterostichus sublaevis, 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 9 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 sublaevis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pterostichus sublaevis 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 itPterostichus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sahlberg 1880)