Staphylininae

Staphylininae are a subfamily of rove beetles. They contain the typical rove beetles with their long but fairly robust blunt-headed and -tipped bodies and short elytra, as well as some more unusually-shaped lineages.

Staphylininae

Bruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
StaphylinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 141 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 172 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 172 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 172 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 172 occurrencesEocene — about 46 of 172 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 172 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 172 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 172 occurrencesPleistocene — about 59 of 172 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–125 Mya — about 5 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 16 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 43 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 15 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences139.1 Mya11.7 ka144 Mya0 Mya

172 occurrences of Staphylininae 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

172 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

21 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WQuadra Sand — 49.23°N, 122.78°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°W

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The named rock units Staphylininae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Staphylininae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Staphylininae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Staphylininae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

47 references

Each of the 172 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. 35 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 Staphylininae

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Staphylininae 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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Latreille 1802