Esolus parallelepipedus

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- EsolusPBDB
- 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.
11 occurrences of Esolus parallelepipedus 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
11 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 Esolus parallelepipedus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Esolus parallelepipedus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Esolus parallelepipedus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Hydraena11 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes11 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus11 sites
- Stenus11 sites
- Aphodius10 sites
- Limnius volckmari10 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus10 sites
- Anotylus rugosus9 sites
- Bryaxis9 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus9 sites
- Helodidae9 sites
- Aleocharinae8 sites
- Bagous8 sites
- Elmis aenea8 sites
- Carpelimus7 sites
- Dryops7 sites
- Helophorus7 sites
- Macronychus quadrituberculatus7 sites
- Ochthebius minimus7 sites
- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus7 sites
- Pelochares versicolor7 sites
- Pomatinus substriatus7 sites
- Riolus nitens7 sites
- Adelocera murina6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Esolus parallelepipedus, 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
2 references- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK7
- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian4
Each of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Esolus parallelepipedus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Esolus parallelepipedus 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 itEsolus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muller 1806)