Caraboidea

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.

Caraboidea

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
CarabiformiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 42 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 42 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 11 of 42 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 42 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 42 occurrences236–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 7 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 14 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 11 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya113.2 Mya236 Mya98 Mya

42 occurrences of Caraboidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

42 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

16 formations

Xiagou — 39.97°N, 97.80°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ELengshuiwu — 28.50°N, 117.47°ELengshuiwu — 28.18°N, 117.35°ELengshuiwu — 28.19°N, 117.20°ELengshuiwu — 28.58°N, 117.65°EChijinbao — 40.10°N, 97.39°ELushangfen — 39.80°N, 116.08°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.77°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EHassberge — 50.01°N, 10.67°EZagaje — 51.13°N, 20.66°EHaifanggou — 41.85°N, 120.79°EChijinpu — 39.92°N, 96.75°EZhonggou — 39.97°N, 97.80°EQingshila — 40.88°N, 114.69°EXiazhuang — 39.80°N, 116.08°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°E

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The named rock units Caraboidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Caraboidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Caraboidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

665 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Caraboidea, 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

16 references

Each of the 42 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. 4 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 Caraboidea

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCarabiformia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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