Hoploparia

Hoploparia is a genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephropidae. The type species of this genus is Hoploparia longimana.

Hoploparia

Stickpen · Public Domain · 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
NephropidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nephropoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 91 of 219 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 101 of 219 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 219 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 219 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 219 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 23 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 19 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 11 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 7 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 6 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 8 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 9 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 15 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 15 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 19 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 24 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 11 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya33.9 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

219 occurrences of Hoploparia 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

219 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

59 formations

Calcaire à Spatangues — 47.60°N, 3.21°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.19°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 63.83°S, 57.63°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.89°WMerchantville — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.06°N, 74.41°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.68°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WDays Creek — 42.95°N, 123.36°WDays Creek — 42.56°N, 124.07°WDays Creek — 42.94°N, 123.37°WBad Heart — 55.67°N, 118.94°WBad Heart — 55.51°N, 118.15°WSnow Hill Island — 63.00°S, 57.00°WSnow Hill Island — 63.89°S, 57.58°WSnow Hill Island — 64.20°S, 56.83°WSnow Hill Island — 63.99°S, 57.42°WRio Mayer — 48.28°S, 72.00°WRio Mayer — 48.80°S, 72.15°WRio Mayer — 48.90°S, 72.25°WRio Mayer — 48.92°S, 71.92°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 34.56°N, 88.90°WRipley — 35.09°N, 88.53°WRipley — 35.00°N, 88.60°WLefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WMount Laurel — 39.54°N, 75.74°WPender — 49.73°N, 125.10°WPender — 49.82°N, 125.18°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°WDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WTambo — 23.36°S, 144.70°ETambo — 23.27°S, 144.74°ETambo — 21.09°S, 149.17°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 65.57°S, 56.45°WCerro Cazador — 51.15°S, 72.38°WCerro Cazador — 51.43°S, 72.30°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WCannonball — 46.53°N, 101.14°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WCoon Creek — 34.39°N, 88.89°WWills Point — 31.67°N, 96.57°W

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The named rock units Hoploparia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoploparia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hoploparia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,080 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Hoploparia, 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

85 references

Each of the 219 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. 73 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 Hoploparia

Credit
Stickpen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Hoploparia bearpawensis Feldmann

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1849