Stephostethus
Stephostethus is a genus of beetles in the family Latridiidae.
Pristurus · 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
- LatridiinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Stephostethus 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
7 occurrences- Eocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
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.
Stephostethus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Stephostethus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
763 taxa- Stenus6 sites
- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Scydmaeninae5 sites
- Sthereus quadrituberculatus5 sites
- Agathidium4 sites
- Arpedium cribratum4 sites
- Oropus4 sites
- Pelecomalium testaceum4 sites
- Pityophthorus nitidulus4 sites
- Pseudohylesinus nebulosus4 sites
- Ptiliidae4 sites
- Staphylininae4 sites
- Abdiunguis3 sites
- Elateridae3 sites
- Helophorus3 sites
- Olophrum boreale3 sites
- Oxytelus laqueatus3 sites
- Phloeotribus lecontei3 sites
- Plateumaris3 sites
- Plateumaris nitida3 sites
- Pterostichus (Leptoferonia) pumilus3 sites
- Rhyncolus brunneus3 sites
- Sonoma3 sites
- Trechus (Trechus) oregonensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Stephostethus, 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
3 references- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA5
- Neue Arten und Anmerkungen zu Latridiidae (Coleoptera) aus Baltischem Bernstein1
- Two new species of Lathridius sensu lato (Coleoptera, Lathridiidae) from Baltic amber1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Stephostethus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Pristurus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLatridiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1878