Dinochelus steeplensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinochelusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nephropoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Dinochelus steeplensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Dinochelus steeplensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dinochelus steeplensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dinochelus steeplensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Deltoidonautilus sowerbyi2 sites
- Euciphoceras regale2 sites
- Eutrephoceras (Simplicioceras) centrale2 sites
- Panticarcinus maylandiensis2 sites
- Abdounia1 site
- Abra (Syndosmya) splendens1 site
- Ampheristus toliapicus1 site
- Amphorometra1 site
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Archaeocarabus1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis)1 site
- Arcoscalpellum quadratum1 site
- Aturia ziczac1 site
- Aulopopsis1 site
- Bathytoma granata1 site
- Belosepia1 site
- Cainocrinus tintinnabulum1 site
- Campylostoma matutiforme1 site
- Carcharias hopei1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Coelopleurus1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Cyclocorystes pulchellus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dinochelus steeplensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dinochelus steeplensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dinochelus steeplensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDinochelus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tshudy and Saward 2012