Adephaga

The Adephaga are a suborder of beetles, and with more than 40,000 recorded species in 10 families, the second-largest of the four beetle suborders. Members of this suborder are collectively known as adephagans. The largest family is Carabidae which comprises most of the suborder with over 40,000 species. Adephaga also includes a variety of aquatic beetles, such as predaceous diving beetles and whirligig beetles.

Adephaga

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
MetacoleopteraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 2463 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 7 of 2463 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 17 of 2463 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 39 of 2463 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 103 of 2463 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 21 of 2463 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 164 of 2463 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 220 of 2463 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 30 of 2463 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 2463 occurrencesEocene — about 214 of 2463 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 72 of 2463 occurrencesMiocene — about 209 of 2463 occurrencesPliocene — about 40 of 2463 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1281 of 2463 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 9 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 17 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 10 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 6 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 7 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 29 occurrences199–190 Mya — about 20 occurrences190–181 Mya — about 44 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 25 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 15 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 24 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 99 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 55 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 14 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 51 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 139 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 5 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 14 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 15 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 8 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 16 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 30 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 146 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 75 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 68 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 128 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 1389 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka259 Mya0 Mya

2,463 occurrences of Adephaga 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

2,463 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

183 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.05°WKap København — 82.46°N, 23.25°WKap København — 82.39°N, 24.18°WKap København — 82.35°N, 24.25°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°ETsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WGlushkovo — 51.86°N, 117.45°EGlushkovo — 51.71°N, 116.93°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°EGlushkovo — 53.74°N, 102.56°EGlushkovo — 51.65°N, 117.41°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ECheremkhovskaya — 52.63°N, 103.99°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.81°ELaiyang — 37.01°N, 120.86°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.92°W

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The named rock units Adephaga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 159 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 740 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adephaga and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Adephaga and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

7,260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 550 sites for Adephaga, and this reads 240 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

367 references

Each of the 2,463 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. 355 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 Adephaga

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adephaga was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clairville 1806