Cartodere nodifer
Cartodere nodifer is a species of minute brown scavenger beetles native to Australia and New Zealand but now cosmopolitan.

Uncredited · 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
- CartoderePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 129 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cartodere nodifer 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
1 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 Cartodere nodifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cartodere nodifer and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cartodere nodifer and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Abax durhamianus1 site
- Anobium punctatum1 site
- Apidae1 site
- Argutor pliocenicus1 site
- Forficula auricularia1 site
- Hydraena reidiana1 site
- Hydroporus edenianus1 site
- Phytodecta (Goniomena) exilis1 site
- Trechus praeglacialis1 site
- Xantholinus linearis anglicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cartodere nodifer, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cartodere nodifer
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cartodere nodifer 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
- 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 itCartodere through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Westwood 1839)