Euproops

Euproops is an extinct genus of xiphosuran, related to the modern horseshoe crab. It lived during the Carboniferous Period.

Euproops

Filipiak, P. & Krawczyński, W. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelinuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Xiphosurida

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 300.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 326.9 Mya to 300.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 39 of 39 occurrencesCarboniferous327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–314 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 8 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 9 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 7 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323.6 Mya300.9 Mya327.4 Mya299.8 Mya

39 occurrences of Euproops on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

39 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

16 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.30°N, 88.15°WPennant Sandstone — 51.75°N, 3.40°WPennant Sandstone — 51.65°N, 3.24°WFarrington — 51.28°N, 2.46°WFarrington — 51.30°N, 2.43°WPennant — 51.71°N, 3.91°WLlewellyn — 40.72°N, 76.23°WLlewellyn — 41.25°N, 75.84°WLawrence — 38.93°N, 95.35°WFlöz Dreibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°EAlmaznaya — 47.93°N, 38.20°ESmolyaninovskaya — 48.62°N, 38.00°EGorlovka — 47.90°N, 40.04°EGorlovka — 47.95°N, 37.54°EBelaya Kalitva — 48.31°N, 40.25°ESouth Wales Middle Coal Measures — 51.65°N, 3.97°WBochum — 51.47°N, 6.96°EGlenshaw — 40.58°N, 80.21°WHeath — 46.95°N, 108.96°W

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The named rock units Euproops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euproops and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Euproops and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Euproops, 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

Each of the 39 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 content2

Picture of Euproops

Credit
Filipiak, P. & Krawczyński, W.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Euproops sp. · TMNH:00701

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBelinuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1867)