Philonthus

Philonthus is a genus of large rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 380 described species in Philonthus.

Philonthus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhilonthinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 141 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 27 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences139.1 Mya11.7 ka144 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Philonthus 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

27 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

9 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WTitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EHighbury Silts and Sands — 51.56°N, 0.06°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WScarborough — 43.70°N, 79.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EOler — 69.50°N, 158.50°EQuadra Sand — 49.23°N, 122.78°W

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The named rock units Philonthus 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.

Philonthus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Philonthus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Philonthus, 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 27 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 Philonthus

Credit
xpda
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Philonthus 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 itPhilonthina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Curtis 1829