Decapoda

Searched as Decapod sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Decapoda as the accepted name.

No picture of Decapoda was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Decapoda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
decapodPBDB
Sits inside
CaridoidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 193 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 4 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences227.3 Mya33.9 Mya241 Mya23 Mya

4 occurrences of Decapoda on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

2 formations

Luning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°W

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

Decapoda and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Decapoda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

3,121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,008 sites for Decapoda, and this reads 240 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Decapoda was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Decapoda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Decapoda 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802