Nicrophorus marginatus

Nicrophorus marginatus, also known as the margined sexton beetle, margined burying beetle, or the red and black burying beetle, is a burying beetle described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801. Adults are 12–28 millimetres (0.47–1.10 in) in length and are shiny black with red-orange elytra bands and antennae clubs.

Nicrophorus marginatus

Flickr user Petrified Forest · CC BY 2.0 · 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
NicrophorusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 2 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 14 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 210 ka to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 14 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 16 occurrences213 ka–189 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence189 ka–166 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences166 ka–142 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences142 ka–118 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences118 ka–95 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences95 ka–71 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences71 ka–47 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences47 ka–24 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences24 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences14 ka – 11.7 ka710 ka0 Mya

16 occurrences of Nicrophorus marginatus 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

16 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.

Nicrophorus marginatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nicrophorus marginatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nicrophorus marginatus, 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

Each of the 16 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

Media content1

Picture of Nicrophorus marginatus

Credit
Flickr user Petrified Forest
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nicrophorus marginatus 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.

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 itNicrophorus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fabricius 1801)