Dromiopsis

Dromiopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DromiaceaPBDB
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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 28 occurrencesEocene121–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113.2 Mya48.07 Mya121 Mya39 Mya

28 occurrences of Dromiopsis 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

28 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

5 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EStevns Klint — 55.57°N, 12.82°EChiampo Marble — 45.54°N, 11.26°EKambuhel — 47.75°N, 16.03°E

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The named rock units Dromiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dromiopsis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dromiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dromiopsis, 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

15 references

Each of the 28 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. 3 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 Dromiopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dromiopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDromiacea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1858