Euphylax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodophthalminaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Portunoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.
18 occurrences of Euphylax on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
18 occurrences- Oligocene6%
- Miocene43%
- Pliocene41%
- Pleistocene11%
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
12 formations
- Canimar Formation3
- Cayo Agua Formation3
- Pirabas Formation2
- Rio Banano Formation2
- Gatun Formation1
- Manchioneal Formation1
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The named rock units Euphylax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Euphylax and its relatives
MioceneWhere Euphylax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Hepatus lineatinus3 sites
- Acanthocarpus obscurus2 sites
- Amauropsis2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana2 sites
- Anomia ephippium2 sites
- Aphrocallistes estevoui2 sites
- Aphrocallistes lobata2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Arcinella2 sites
- Arcinella yaquensis2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Callapa circularis2 sites
- Callinectes2 sites
- Calliostoma (Eutrochus)2 sites
- Calliostoma cirrus2 sites
- Calliostoma pirabicum2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharhinus ackermannii2 sites
- Carcharhinus perezi2 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cardium philotarium2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Euphylax, 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
9 references- Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project7
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)2
- Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean2
- Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region2
- Crustacea (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Miocene of Veracruz and Chiapas, Mexico: New records and new species1
- Neogene decapod crustaceans from the Caribbean of Colombia1
- El registro fósil de los crustáceos decápodos (Arthropoda, Crustacea) marinos de Cuba1
- A new species of portunid crab from early Pleistocene Old Pera beds of Jamaica1
- Palaeogene decapod Crustacea from the Kishima and Okinoshima Groups, Jyushu, Japan1
Each of the 18 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. 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
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No picture of Euphylax 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 Euphylax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Euphylax 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 itPodophthalminae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1862