Simplocaria basalis

Sahlberg, John Reinhold · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- SimplocariaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Simplocaria basalis 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Simplocaria basalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Simplocaria basalis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Simplocaria basalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
323 taxa- Bembidion6 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)6 sites
- Tachinus6 sites
- Agabus5 sites
- Hydroporus5 sites
- Stenus5 sites
- Amara4 sites
- Diacheila polita4 sites
- Notiophilus aquaticus4 sites
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis3 sites
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli3 sites
- Arctopsyche ladogensis3 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) levettei3 sites
- Bembidion (Peryphanes) yukonum3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Bolitobius3 sites
- Calyptratae3 sites
- Carabidae3 sites
- Chrysolina3 sites
- Chrysomelidae3 sites
- Corticaria3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Cyriophthalmus variegatus3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Simplocaria basalis, 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- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia3
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland3
Each of the 6 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 Simplocaria basalis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Sahlberg, John Reinhold
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Simplocaria basalis 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 itSimplocaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sahlberg 1903