Hoploparia johnsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HoplopariaPBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
2 occurrences of Hoploparia johnsoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Hoploparia johnsoni 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.
Hoploparia johnsoni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Hoploparia johnsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Caloxanthus1 site
- Costacopluma texana1 site
- Hyphalocarcinus americana1 site
- Kierionopsis nodosa1 site
- Linuparus wilcoxensis1 site
- Paguroidea1 site
- Paraverrucoides alabamensis1 site
- Pithonoton cardwelli1 site
- Prehepatus1 site
- Raninoides bournei1 site
- Raninoides treldenaesensis1 site
- Viapinnixa mexiaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hoploparia johnsoni, 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- Decapod crustaceans from the Paleocene of Central Texas, USA1
- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hoploparia johnsoni
- 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 Hoploparia johnsoni 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 itHoploparia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rathbun 1935)