Notiophilus

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- NotiophiliniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
28 occurrences of Notiophilus 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
28 occurrences- Miocene11%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene86%
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
6 formations
- Kap København Formation10
- Titusville Till Formation3
- Olympia beds Formation3
- Quadra Sand Formation2
- Cowichan Head Formation1
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation1
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The named rock units Notiophilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notiophilus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Notiophilus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
801 taxa- Bembidion14 sites
- Stenus13 sites
- Bledius12 sites
- Aleocharinae10 sites
- Dyschirius10 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)9 sites
- Carabidae8 sites
- Chrysomelidae8 sites
- Helophorus8 sites
- Amara7 sites
- Hydroporus7 sites
- Olophrum consimile7 sites
- Pterostichus7 sites
- Aphodius6 sites
- Colymbetes6 sites
- Eucnecosum6 sites
- Patrobus stygicus6 sites
- Quedius6 sites
- Staphylinidae6 sites
- Agabus5 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) sordidum5 sites
- Catops5 sites
- Elaphrus lapponicus5 sites
- Formicidae5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Notiophilus, 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- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland10
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia4
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.3
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania3
- Pre-Vashon fossil Coleoptera of Fraser age from the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia2
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire2
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK1
- Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska1
- The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, Wisconsin1
- Fossil arthropods of British Columbia 7. A carabid from Lynn Creek lignite1
Each of the 28 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 content1

Picture of Notiophilus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James K. Lindsey
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Notiophilus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNotiophilini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duméril 1805