Cercyon

Siga · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

Sits inside

MegasterniniPBDB

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

• Eocene3%
• Pleistocene97%

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.

Where Cercyon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Stenus18 sites
• Aleocharinae15 sites
• Aphodius15 sites
• Dyschiriodes globosus13 sites
• Hydraena11 sites
• Rhynchaenus quercus11 sites
• Anotylus rugosus10 sites
• Bryaxis10 sites
• Dryops10 sites
• Helophorus10 sites
• Limnius volckmari10 sites
• Oulimnius troglodytes10 sites
• Oulimnius tuberculatus10 sites
• Apion9 sites
• Bagous9 sites
• Carpelimus9 sites
• Esolus parallelepipedus9 sites
• Gyrinus9 sites
• Helodidae9 sites
• Ochthebius minimus9 sites
• Pelochares versicolor9 sites
• Bledius8 sites
• Elmis aenea8 sites
• Hydrobius fuscipes8 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Cercyon, 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.

• Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UKGreen et al., 2006 · Quaternary Science Reviews · journal article13
• Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, EnglandAalto et al., 1984 · Proceedings of the Geologists Association · journal article6
• A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, WorcestershireCoope et al., 1961 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences · journal article4
• The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.Ashworth and Nelson, 2014 · Quaternary International · journal article2
• Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type WolstonianKeen et al., 1997 · Journal of Quaternary Science · journal article2
• Paleogeography of the lower Volga at the end of Atelian time based on entomological and botanical dataBidashko et al., 1995 · Paleontological Journal · journal article2
• The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, WisconsinMorgan and Morgan, 1979 · Quaternary Research · journal article2
• Late Cenozoic insects of northern EurasiaKiselev and Nazarov, 2009 · Paleontological Journal · journal article1
• Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British ColumbiaScudder, 1879 · Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for 1877-1878 · book chapter1

Each of the 33 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.

What may have been alongside itMegasternini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1817