Ochthebius

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- OchthebiinaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 59 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
29 occurrences of Ochthebius 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
29 occurrences- Paleocene3%
- Eocene3%
- Oligocene3%
- Pleistocene90%
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
- Highbury Silts and Sands Formation9
- Titusville Till Formation3
- Olympia beds Formation3
- Firkanten Formation1
- Rott Formation1
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group1
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The named rock units Ochthebius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ochthebius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ochthebius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,066 taxa- Stenus19 sites
- Aleocharinae16 sites
- Aphodius15 sites
- Helophorus12 sites
- Hydraena11 sites
- Bledius10 sites
- Bryaxis9 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus9 sites
- Oulimnius troglodytes9 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus9 sites
- Bagous8 sites
- Elateridae8 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus8 sites
- Helodidae8 sites
- Limnius volckmari8 sites
- Oulimnius tuberculatus8 sites
- Anotylus rugosus7 sites
- Bembidion7 sites
- Carpelimus7 sites
- Dryops7 sites
- Elmis aenea7 sites
- Gyrinus7 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes7 sites
- Pelochares versicolor7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Ochthebius, 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
11 references- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK9
- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.3
- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian3
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Middle and Late Wisconsinan fossil coleopteran assemblages from western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA3
- Fossil Beetle Evidence for a Short Warm Interval near 40,000 yr B.P. at Titusville, Pennsylvania3
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England3
- The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England1
- The fossil Coleoptera of the Two Creeks Forest Bed, Wisconsin1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
- Die Miocene flora und fauna Spitzbergens1
- Käfer und Polypen aus der Braunkohle des Siebengebirges1
Each of the 29 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 Ochthebius
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ochthebius 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815