Eriosachila
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AethridaePBDB
- 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 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
27 occurrences of Eriosachila 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
27 occurrences- Late Cretaceous15%
- Paleocene2%
- Eocene70%
- Oligocene3%
- Miocene10%
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
14 formations
- Lookingglass Formation8
- Santee Formation2
- Merchantville Formation2
- Tepetate Formation1
- Castillo Formation1
- Bateque Formation1
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The named rock units Eriosachila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eriosachila and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eriosachila and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Rogueus orri6 sites
- Orbitoplax weaveri5 sites
- Palaeopinnixa rathbunae5 sites
- Panopeus baldwini4 sites
- Raninoides vaderensis3 sites
- Brachyura2 sites
- Calappilia hondoensis2 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Ctenocheles hokoensis2 sites
- Enoploclytia2 sites
- Macroacaena tridens2 sites
- Marycarcinus hannae2 sites
- Neocallichirus2 sites
- Palaeopinnixa perornata2 sites
- Petrochirus2 sites
- Portunus oblongus2 sites
- Raninoides rathbunae2 sites
- Acharax dunnensis1 site
- Acteon vacavillensis1 site
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi1 site
- Ancilla meganosensis1 site
- Ancilla vacavillensis1 site
- Archaeozius occidentalis1 site
- Baculites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Eriosachila, 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
17 references- The Early Eocene decapod crustacean fauna of the Lookingglass Formation, Oregon6
- The Upper Cretaceous decapod crustaceans of New Jersey and Delaware.3
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod crustaceans from Venezuela and related trace-fossil assemblages2
- Mesozoic and Tertiary Decapod Crustacea from Mexico2
- Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A.2
- Revision of and additions to early Cenozoic Brachyura (Crustacea: Dromiacea, Eubrachyura) from the USA1
- A new genus and species of raninid crab, Doraranina manleyi (Decapoda: Raninoidea: Lyreididae) from the lower Eocene of Oregon1
- New Eocene Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Egypt1
- Especie nueva de Eriosachila Blow y Manning, 1996, (Crustacea: Decapoda), de la Formacion, Colon, Cuba1
- Decapod crustaceans (Brachyura) from the Eocene Tepetate Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- Decapod Crustaceans from the Lower Miocene of North-Western Venezuela (Cerro La Cruz, Castillo Formation)1
- New crabs from the Eocene and Oligocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico and an assessment of the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of Mexican fossil decapods1
Each of the 27 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. 5 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 Eriosachila
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Eriosachila 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 itAethridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blow and Manning 1996