Harpalus

Harpalus is a genus of ground beetle first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802.

Harpalus

Uncredited · Attribution · 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
HarpalinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 52 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 52 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 52 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Harpalus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

52 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

13 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EFirkanten — 78.10°N, 14.20°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EEdoma — 69.50°N, 158.50°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°W

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The named rock units Harpalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Harpalus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Harpalus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,826 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Harpalus, 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

24 references

Each of the 52 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. 12 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 Harpalus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Harpalus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itHarpalina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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