Oxytelinae

The Oxytelinae are a subfamily of the Staphylinidae, rove beetles. There are about 20 genera and at least 320 described species in Oxytelinae.

Oxytelinae

Spongymesophyll · 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
StaphylinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 167 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 167 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 167 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 167 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 167 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 167 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 167 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 167 occurrencesPleistocene — about 112 of 167 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 7 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–32 Mya — about 14 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 113 occurrences149.2 Mya129 ka158 Mya0 Mya

167 occurrences of Oxytelinae 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

167 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

21 formations

Highbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WMogotuin — 44.11°N, 106.93°EGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ETinginskaya — 50.65°N, 112.84°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EDon — 43.69°N, 79.36°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°W

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The named rock units Oxytelinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxytelinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Oxytelinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,986 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Oxytelinae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

44 references

Each of the 167 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. 32 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 Oxytelinae

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

No 3D scan of Oxytelinae 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 itStaphylinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fleming 1821)