Scarites

Scarites is a genus of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, the Near East, North America and North Africa, India. There are more than 190 described species in Scarites with more than 55 described species from India.

Scarites

Kaldari · CC0 · 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
ScaritinaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocene122–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–9.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113.2 Mya13.82 Mya122 Mya9 Mya

4 occurrences of Scarites on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

4 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

2 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EDuho — 36.06°N, 129.36°E

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The named rock units Scarites 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.

Scarites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scarites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scarites, 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

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 content3

Picture of Scarites

Credit
Kaldari
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scarites Scarites edentatus · ETHZ:ENT:0577145

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tunosemi
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScaritina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1775