Patrobus

Patrobus is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are more than 20 described species in Patrobus.

Patrobus

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 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
PatrobinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 33 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Patrobus 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

37 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

5 formations

Titusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WScarborough — 43.73°N, 79.29°WOlympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°W

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The named rock units Patrobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Patrobus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Patrobus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

912 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Patrobus, 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

14 references

Each of the 37 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. 2 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 Patrobus

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Patrobus 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.

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 itPatrobina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dejean 1821