Malthodes

Malthodes is a genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 120 described species in Malthodes.

Malthodes

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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalthodiniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 37 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 10 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya11.63 Mya38.3 Mya6.6 Mya

39 occurrences of Malthodes on record. 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

39 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

1 formation

Bârnova-Muntele — 47.13°N, 27.66°E

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The named rock units Malthodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Malthodes, 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

26 references

Each of the 39 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. 14 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 Malthodes

Credit
Siga
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMalthodini through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kiesenwetter 1852