Gecarcinus lateralis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GecarcinusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Grapsoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Grapsoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gecarcinus lateralis on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Gecarcinus lateralis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gecarcinus lateralis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Alsophis1 site
- Ameiva griswoldi1 site
- Anolis bimaculatus leachi1 site
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Brachyphylla cavernarum1 site
- Calidris1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Cinclocerthia ruficauda1 site
- Coenobita clypeatus1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Eleutherodactylus1 site
- Hapalocrex flaviventer1 site
- Leiocephalus1 site
- Loxigilla noctis1 site
- Margarops fuscatus1 site
- Molossus molossus1 site
- Mormoops blainvillei1 site
- Natalus1 site
- Orthorhyncus cristatus1 site
- Oryzomyini1 site
- Phyllonycteris major1 site
- Pteronotus parnellii1 site
- Puffinus lherminieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gecarcinus lateralis, 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
2 references- Fossil hermit and land crabs (Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) from the Quaternary of Antigua and Bermuda1
- Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Gecarcinus lateralis
- 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 Gecarcinus lateralis 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 itGecarcinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guérin 1832)