Thanatophilus lapponicus

Thanatophilus lapponicus, the northern carrion beetle, is a species of carrion beetle in the family Silphidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia, Central America, and North America.

Thanatophilus lapponicus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 199 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 210 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences213 ka–189 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189 ka–166 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166 ka–142 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142 ka–118 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118 ka–95 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95 ka–71 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71 ka–47 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47 ka–24 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences710 ka0 Mya

4 occurrences of Thanatophilus lapponicus 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

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

1 formation

Olympia beds — 47.66°N, 122.43°W

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The named rock units Thanatophilus lapponicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thanatophilus lapponicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Thanatophilus lapponicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Thanatophilus lapponicus, 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

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 Thanatophilus lapponicus

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No 3D scan of Thanatophilus lapponicus 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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What may have been alongside itThanatophilus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herbst 1793)