Eurytium crenulatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EurytiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Xanthoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Eurytium crenulatum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
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The named rock units Eurytium crenulatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eurytium crenulatum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Eurytium crenulatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Arenaeus1 site
- Axius1 site
- Calappa flammea1 site
- Hepatus chiliensis1 site
- Leucosiidae1 site
- Leucosilia jurinei1 site
- Lophopanopeus maculoides1 site
- Macrobrachium1 site
- Micropanope1 site
- Natantia1 site
- Nephrops1 site
- Nephrops costatus1 site
- Panopeus antepurpureus1 site
- Panopeus tridentatus1 site
- Parthenope pleistocenica1 site
- Persephona enigmatica1 site
- Petrochirus bouvieri1 site
- Platyxanthus1 site
- Sandomingia yaquiensis1 site
- Uca macrodactylus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eurytium crenulatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project2
- Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Eurytium crenulatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eurytium crenulatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEurytium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1918