Phalacrus caricis

This image is created by user Wim Rubers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands. · CC BY 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
- PhalacrusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Phalacrus caricis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phalacrus caricis 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.
Phalacrus caricis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phalacrus caricis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Aphodius3 sites
- Apion3 sites
- Bryaxis3 sites
- Dryops3 sites
- Hydraena3 sites
- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus3 sites
- Rhamphus pulicarius3 sites
- Rhynchaenus quercus3 sites
- Stenus3 sites
- Adelocera murina2 sites
- Bagous2 sites
- Bembidion (Diplocampa) assimile2 sites
- Corylophus cassidoides2 sites
- Curculio venosus2 sites
- Dascillus cervinus2 sites
- Donacia2 sites
- Donacia cinerea2 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus2 sites
- Esolus parallelepipedus2 sites
- Gyrinus2 sites
- Helodidae2 sites
- Hister2 sites
- Limnius volckmari2 sites
- Ochthebius minimus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phalacrus caricis, 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
2 references- Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian2
- Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Phalacrus caricis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- This image is created by user Wim Rubers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phalacrus caricis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhalacrus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sturm 1807