Cantharis
Searched as Telephorus tertiarius oeningensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cantharis as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CanthariniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.8 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cantharis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cantharis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cantharis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cantharis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,390 taxa- Apidae4 sites
- Entiminae4 sites
- Plecia hypogaea4 sites
- Plecia pinguis4 sites
- Anisoptera3 sites
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) ambericus3 sites
- Attagenus hoffeinsorum3 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum3 sites
- Bibio janus3 sites
- Camponotites lignitus3 sites
- Chironomus3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Curculionidae3 sites
- Diptera3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Hallodapomimus elektrinus3 sites
- Hesperinus heeri3 sites
- Hylobittacus fossilis3 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri3 sites
- Lyctoferus similis3 sites
- Mizalia3 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea3 sites
- Palaeotramea cellulosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cantharis, 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 1 occurrence 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 Cantharis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cantharis 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 itCantharini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaeffer 1766