Asthenognathus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsthenognathinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Grapsoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Varunidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.
10 occurrences of Asthenognathus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
10 occurrences- Eocene10%
- Oligocene40%
- Miocene30%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene10%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Asthenognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Asthenognathus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Asthenognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Macrocheira teglandi3 sites
- Mursia marcusana3 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Chaceon peruvianus2 sites
- Liracassis apta2 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) twinensis2 sites
- Notocarcinus sulcatus2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Portlandia2 sites
- Portunites triangulum2 sites
- Solemya (Acharax) dalli2 sites
- <vertebrate remains>1 site
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Albaidaplax ispalensis1 site
- Albunea asymmetrica1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Anadara dilovii1 site
- Anamathia sp.1 site
- Anapagurus miocenicus1 site
- Archaeogeryon latus1 site
- Asterigerinata1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Austromunida casadioi1 site
- Bannerella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Asthenognathus, 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
8 references- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington3
- Scavengers and opportunists at work on whale carcasses: decapods, echinoids and fishes1
- New reports of anomurans and brachyurans from the Cenozoic of Tuscany (Italy)1
- Asthenognathus laverdensis n. sp. (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from the lower Oligocene of Laverda (Vicenza, NE Italy)1
- New decapods from the Miocene of Hungary - with remarks about their environment1
- New decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Galatheoidea, Brachyura) from the Middle Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina1
- Differentiation of the fossil Hexapodidae Miers, 1886 (Decapoda: Brachyura) from similar forms1
- 40Ar/39Ar age and oxygen isotope temperature of the Centinela Formation, southwestern Argentina: An Eocene age for crustacean-rich "Patagonian" beds1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Asthenognathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Asthenognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asthenognathus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsthenognathinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1858