Blethisa multipunctata
Blethisa multipunctata is a species of ground beetle native to Europe. The habitat is stream, river and lake margins. It is amphibious, able to hunt below water for up to an hour. It is commonly known as the multidotted ground beetle.
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
- BlethisaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Blethisa multipunctata 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Blethisa multipunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Blethisa multipunctata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Blethisa multipunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
501 taxa- Amara3 sites
- Aphodius3 sites
- Bembidion3 sites
- Chrysolina3 sites
- Dyschirius3 sites
- Agabus2 sites
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli2 sites
- Bledius2 sites
- Bledius littoralis2 sites
- Byrrhus2 sites
- Carabidae2 sites
- Catops2 sites
- Cercyon tristis2 sites
- Chaetocnema2 sites
- Chrysomelidae2 sites
- Coccinellidae2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Donacia2 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus2 sites
- Elaphrus riparius2 sites
- Grypus equiseti2 sites
- Gyrinus2 sites
- Gyrinus minutus2 sites
- Hydroporus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Blethisa multipunctata, 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- Paleogeography of the lower Volga at the end of Atelian time based on entomological and botanical data1
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 3 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 Blethisa multipunctata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Blethisa multipunctata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itBlethisa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)