Ferroranina dichrous

Crane, Frank · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- FerroraninaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ferroranina dichrous on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Britton Formation · Eagle Ford Group2
- Eagle Ford Formation1
- Elm Fork Shale Formation · Eagle Ford Group1
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The named rock units Ferroranina dichrous has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ferroranina dichrous and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ferroranina dichrous and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni4 sites
- Homarus brittonestris3 sites
- Homarus davisi3 sites
- Linuparus grimmeri3 sites
- Linuparus watkinsi3 sites
- Meticonaxius rhacheochir3 sites
- Sciponoceras gracile2 sites
- Allocrioceras1 site
- Astacodes davisi1 site
- Cretacoranina denisae1 site
- Euomphaioceras septumseriatum1 site
- Ferroranina australis1 site
- Gourretia aquilae1 site
- Homarus1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Latheticocarcinus pikeae1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Moremanoceras scotti1 site
- Nephropinae1 site
- Nucuia sp.1 site
- Placenticeras cumminsi1 site
- Pseudosculdidae1 site
- Raninidae1 site
- Scyllaridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ferroranina dichrous, 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
3 references- A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata)4
- Upper Cretaceous Crustacea from Mexico and Colombia: similar faunas and environments during Turonian times1
- Decapod Crustaceans from the Cretaceous of Texas1
Each of the 6 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 Ferroranina dichrous
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Crane, Frank
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ferroranina dichrous 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.
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What may have been alongside itFerroranina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stenzel 1945)