Agabini
Agabini is a tribe of beetles in the family Dytiscidae.

Udo Schmidt · 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
- AgabinaePBDB
- 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 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 129 ka.
7 occurrences of Agabini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Agabini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Agabini and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Agabini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
292 taxa- Carabidae6 sites
- Bembidion5 sites
- Curculionidae5 sites
- Staphylinidae5 sites
- Chrysomelidae4 sites
- Pterostichus4 sites
- Aleocharinae3 sites
- Amara3 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) sordidum3 sites
- Bembidion (Metallina) dyschirinum3 sites
- Bembidion (Peryphanes) yukonum3 sites
- Bembidion (Plataphus) fellmanni3 sites
- Bembidion (Plataphus) gebleri3 sites
- Bembidion (Plataphus) planiusculum3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Calyptratae3 sites
- Donacia3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
- Elaphrus3 sites
- Elaphrus tuberculatus3 sites
- Eucnecosum3 sites
- Ichneumonidae3 sites
- Ilybius3 sites
- Lepidoptera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Agabini, 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
4 references- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland3
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Nogami Formation of Kokonoe, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan2
- A rare diving beetle from Baltic amber: Hydrotrupes prometheus new species reveals former widespread distribution of the genus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)1
- Early Pleistocene ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Ookui Formation in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance1
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 Agabini
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Agabini 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Agabini”
- 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 itAgabinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1867