Carabidae

Carabidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ground beetlePBDB
Sits inside
AdephagaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 1546 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 1546 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 1546 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 25 of 1546 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 61 of 1546 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 1546 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 1546 occurrencesEocene — about 170 of 1546 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 53 of 1546 occurrencesMiocene — about 132 of 1546 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 1546 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1006 of 1546 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 4 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 20 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 20 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 30 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 23 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 96 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 61 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 33 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 34 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 73 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 1083 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

1,546 occurrences of Carabidae 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

1,546 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

100 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°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°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.67°N, 79.32°WKeremesit — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKeremesit — 69.17°N, 158.12°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ETsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WNogami — 33.21°N, 131.15°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WSaijo — 34.38°N, 132.72°ETsumori — 32.79°N, 130.86°EQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WBushi — 35.84°N, 139.35°EBushi — 35.85°N, 139.38°EOokui — 36.34°N, 138.34°EHirabaru — 33.40°N, 131.64°E

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The named rock units Carabidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 554 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carabidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carabidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

6,007 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 409 sites for Carabidae, 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

233 references

Each of the 1,546 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. 221 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 content2

Picture of Carabidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAdephaga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802