Nebria

Nebria is a genus of ground beetles native to the Palearctic, the Near East and North Africa. There are more than 500 described species in Nebria, inhabiting a very wide diversity of habitats.

Nebria

James K. Lindsey · 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
NebriiniPBDB
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 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Nebria 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

17 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

8 formations

Kap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°W

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The named rock units Nebria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nebria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nebria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Nebria, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Nebria

Credit
James K. Lindsey
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nebria Nebria snowi · ETHZ:ENT:0577254

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

Keep going

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

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