Pycnoglypta
Pycnoglypta is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
No picture of Pycnoglypta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pycnoglypta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- winter rove beetlePBDB
- Sits inside
- OmaliiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Pycnoglypta 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
24 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 Pycnoglypta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pycnoglypta and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pycnoglypta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
498 taxa- Stenus14 sites
- Aleocharinae13 sites
- Bledius12 sites
- Bembidion11 sites
- Carabidae10 sites
- Dyschirius10 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle9 sites
- Chrysomelidae8 sites
- Eucnecosum8 sites
- Helophorus8 sites
- Olophrum consimile8 sites
- Patrobus stygicus8 sites
- Staphylinidae8 sites
- Elateridae7 sites
- Eucnecosum brunnescens7 sites
- Omaliinae7 sites
- Quedius7 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) crassiscapus7 sites
- Amara6 sites
- Aphodius6 sites
- Dytiscidae6 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus6 sites
- Hydroporus6 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pycnoglypta, 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
5 references- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania13
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland5
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.2
- Environmental interpretation of fossil insect assemblages from MIS 5 at Ziegler Reservoir, Snowmass Village, Colorado2
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England2
Each of the 24 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 content0
No picture of Pycnoglypta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pycnoglypta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnoglypta 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pycnoglypta”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOmaliini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1858