Carapidae

Carapidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
OphidioideiPBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 155 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 155 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 155 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 85 of 155 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 155 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 155 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 13 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 12 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 27 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences56 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

155 occurrences of Carapidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

155 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

37 formations

Mount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.06°S, 170.95°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMount Harris — 44.79°S, 171.03°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WSouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°EWeches — 28.96°N, 98.48°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.51°N, 94.35°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°ETashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EFyansford — 38.18°S, 144.50°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°EKiscell Clay — 47.85°N, 20.48°EMission Valley — 32.92°N, 117.09°WNanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EPort Campbell Limestone — 38.62°S, 142.98°ENga Pari — 46.02°S, 167.70°E

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The named rock units Carapidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carapidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carapidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,323 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Carapidae, 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

42 references

Each of the 155 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Carapidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Carapidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itOphidioidei through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Fowler 1902