Quedius chamberlini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuediusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Quedius chamberlini on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Quedius chamberlini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quedius chamberlini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Quedius chamberlini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
299 taxa- Agabus florissantensis2 sites
- Amara powellii2 sites
- Aphaenogaster mayri2 sites
- Aphodius granarioides2 sites
- Ataenius patescens2 sites
- Bibio wickhami2 sites
- Brachycera2 sites
- Bruchus exhumatus2 sites
- Cardiophorus lithographus2 sites
- Curculio minusculus2 sites
- Entimini2 sites
- Evopes veneratus2 sites
- Formica robusta2 sites
- Geralophus antiquarius2 sites
- Geralophus lassatus2 sites
- Liometopum miocenicum2 sites
- Miomyrmex impactus2 sites
- Osmylidia requieta2 sites
- Plecia axeliana2 sites
- Protazteca capitata2 sites
- Protazteca elongata2 sites
- Protazteca quadrata2 sites
- Rhysosternum longirostre2 sites
- Stenus morsei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Quedius chamberlini, 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- Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant in the United States National Museum1
- Fossil Coleoptera from the Wilson Ranch near Florissant, Colorado1
- A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant1
- The Tertiary Insects of North America1
Each of the 4 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 Quedius chamberlini
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Quedius chamberlini 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.
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What may have been alongside itQuedius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1890