Phaedon
Phaedon is a genus of Chrysomelinae.
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
- ChrysomeliniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Phaedon 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene91%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Phaedon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phaedon and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phaedon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
453 taxa- Bembidion4 sites
- Acidota crenata3 sites
- Bledius3 sites
- Catops3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes3 sites
- Notaris aethiops3 sites
- Pterostichus (Bothriopterus) adstrictus3 sites
- Quedius3 sites
- Sitona3 sites
- Aegialia lacustris2 sites
- Agonum (Europhilus)2 sites
- Aphodiinae2 sites
- Aphodius2 sites
- Apionini2 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) bimaculatum2 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) inaequale2 sites
- Bembidion (Notaphus) nigripes2 sites
- Byrrhus2 sites
- Carabus (Tanaocarabus) taedatus2 sites
- Cercyon2 sites
- Chironomidae2 sites
- Colymbetes2 sites
- Cytilus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phaedon, 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
4 references- The paleoenvironment of the Olympia beds based on fossil beetles from Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.4
- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- Terrestrial insects of the Rita Blanca lake deposits1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 7 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 Phaedon
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phaedon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChrysomelini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1829