Carpiliidae

Carpilioidea is a superfamily of crabs containing a single extant family, Carpiliidae and four extinct families. The modern range of the family includes the Indo-Pacific, Western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. The fossil record of the group extends back at least as far as the Paleocene.

Carpiliidae

Karelj · Public Domain · 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
CarpilioideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

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 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 114 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 93 of 114 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 114 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 114 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 114 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 14 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 14 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 16 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 17 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences56 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Carpiliidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

114 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

31 formations

Domanda — 31.33°N, 70.15°EDomanda — 29.93°N, 70.12°EDomanda — 30.87°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.98°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.14°N, 70.36°EDomanda — 30.77°N, 70.46°EDomanda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EOcala — 29.77°N, 82.63°WOcala — 29.69°N, 82.57°WOcala — 29.42°N, 82.45°WOcala — 29.37°N, 82.46°WOcala — 29.19°N, 82.14°WArguis — 42.38°N, 0.67°WJackson — 34.23°N, 77.94°WJackson — 31.91°N, 88.44°WJackson — 31.89°N, 88.45°WMaadi — 30.01°N, 31.28°ESantee — 33.33°N, 79.67°WSantee — 33.35°N, 80.23°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WCastle Hayne — 34.86°N, 78.03°WAger — 42.31°N, 0.52°EDrazinda — 30.78°N, 70.43°EDrazinda — 31.53°N, 70.15°EShella — 25.34°N, 92.34°EEstancia 25 de Mayo — 50.51°S, 72.25°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°EAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°ECoral Rock — 13.07°N, 59.52°WAldwell — 47.75°N, 122.85°WMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ECulebra — 9.02°N, 79.62°WCalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ECastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ESzoc Limestone — 47.03°N, 17.52°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Carpiliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carpiliidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carpiliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

911 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Carpiliidae, 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

51 references

Each of the 114 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. 39 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 Carpiliidae

Credit
Karelj
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCarpilioidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ortmann 1893