Carabini
Carabini is a tribe of ground beetles in the subfamily Carabinae. There are 4 genera and more than 1,100 described species in Carabini.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarabinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
94 occurrences of Carabini 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
94 occurrences- Eocene10%
- Oligocene14%
- Miocene26%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene46%
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
23 formations
- Shanwang Formation7
- Florissant Formation6
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation6
- Campagne-Calavon Formation5
- Titusville Till Formation5
- Bushi Formation5
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The named rock units Carabini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carabini and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Carabini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
2,369 taxa- Coleoptera16 sites
- Bembidion14 sites
- Curculionidae14 sites
- Aphodius12 sites
- Carabidae12 sites
- Carabus11 sites
- Agabus10 sites
- Calosoma agassizi9 sites
- Elateridae9 sites
- Staphylinidae9 sites
- Stenus9 sites
- Chrysomelidae8 sites
- Phyllobius8 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)8 sites
- Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander7 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes7 sites
- Ilybius7 sites
- Olophrum rotundicolle7 sites
- Plateumaris7 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus7 sites
- Bledius6 sites
- Cerambycidae6 sites
- Cholevinus sibiricus6 sites
- Curtonotus alpinus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Carabini, 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
47 references- Ueber die fossilen Calosomen7
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia6
- Les calosomes fossiles de l'Oligocène du sud-est de la France (Col. Carabidae)6
- Zhang, 19896
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania5
- Insect fossil assemblage and paleoenvironments from the Early Pleistocene Bushi Formation in Saitama Prefecture, Japan5
- Pleistoceńskie owady z Borysławia4
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Nogami Formation of Kokonoe, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan3
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Hirabaru Formation of Kitsuki City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan3
- Early Pleistocene ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Ookui Formation in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance3
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.2
- Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska2
Each of the 94 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. 35 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 Carabini
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Soebe
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carabini 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Carabini”
- 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 itCarabinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802