Dromilites simplex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DromilitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dromilites simplex 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
4 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
2 formations
- London Clay Formation3
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group1
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The named rock units Dromilites simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dromilites simplex and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dromilites simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Abdounia1 site
- Abra (Syndosmya) splendens1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Ampheristus toliapicus1 site
- Amphorometra1 site
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Archaeocarabus1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis)1 site
- Arcoscalpellum quadratum1 site
- Aulopopsis1 site
- Bathytoma granata1 site
- Belosepia1 site
- Blastophagus1 site
- Cainocrinus tintinnabulum1 site
- Camptorrhinites1 site
- Camptorrhinites orarius1 site
- Campylostoma matutiforme1 site
- Carabidae1 site
- Carcharias hopei1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Coelopleurus1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dromilites simplex, 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
2 references- New Eocene crabs from the Hampshire Basin3
- Observations on the London Clay excavation at Aveley, Essex1
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 Dromilites simplex 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 Dromilites simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dromilites simplex 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 itDromilites through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quayle and Collins 1981