Elaphrus japonicus
No picture of Elaphrus japonicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elaphrus japonicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElaphrusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elaphrus japonicus 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Elaphrus japonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elaphrus japonicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Elaphrus japonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Carabidae3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Donaciinae3 sites
- Lepidoptera3 sites
- Chlaenius2 sites
- Coelostoma2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Elateridae2 sites
- Onthophagus2 sites
- Staphylinidae2 sites
- Agabus1 site
- Aphodius1 site
- Bembidiini1 site
- Bembidion1 site
- Carabus1 site
- Carabus (Ohomopterus)1 site
- Carabus granulatus1 site
- Diptera1 site
- Donacia flemora1 site
- Heteroptera1 site
- Hydrophilidae1 site
- Limnobaris1 site
- Necrophila (Eusilpha)1 site
- Platambus stygius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elaphrus japonicus, 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
3 references- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Nogami Formation of Kokonoe, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan1
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Saijo Formation of Higashi-hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan1
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Tsumori Formation of Mashiki-machi,Kumamoto Prefecture,Japan (Part 2)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elaphrus japonicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elaphrus japonicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elaphrus japonicus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itElaphrus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ueno 1954