Sternolophus rufipes

Sternolophus rufipes is a species of water scavenger beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, China, South Korea and the Philippines.

Sternolophus rufipes

りなべる Depicted place: 金剛院, 舞鶴市, 京都府, JP ( 35°28′30″N 135°26′55″E / 35.4749216667°N 135.4484966667°E / 35.4749216667; 1… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
SternolophusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 2.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.83 Mya2.08 Mya

2 occurrences of Sternolophus rufipes on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

2 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

1 formation

Tsubusagawa — 33.40°N, 131.35°E

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The named rock units Sternolophus rufipes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sternolophus rufipes and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Sternolophus rufipes and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sternolophus rufipes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Picture of Sternolophus rufipes

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りなべる Depicted place: 金剛院, 舞鶴市, 京都府, JP ( 35°28′30″N 135°26′55″E / 35.4749216667°N 135.4484966667°E / 35.4749216667; 1…
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the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sternolophus rufipes 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fabricius 1792)