Linuparus adkinsi

Adkins, W · 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
- LinuparusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palinuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Linuparus adkinsi on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
- Denton Formation · Washita Group2
- Pawpaw Formation · Washita Group1
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The named rock units Linuparus adkinsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Linuparus adkinsi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Linuparus adkinsi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Callianassa cretacea2 sites
- Elektrocarcinus texensis2 sites
- Steorrosia aspera2 sites
- Asteroidea1 site
- Callianassa valida1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Ctenochelidae1 site
- Dromia anomala1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Engonoceras1 site
- Feldmannia wintoni1 site
- Hoploparia anomala1 site
- Hoploparia dentonensis1 site
- Hoploparia tarrantensis1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Lima1 site
- Macruran indet.1 site
- Marylyreidus punctatus1 site
- Neithea1 site
- Notopocorystes parvus1 site
- Paraisurus macrorhizus1 site
- Peilinia quadriplicata1 site
- Poecilocrinus dispandus1 site
- Praescabrotrigonia clavigera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Linuparus adkinsi, 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 Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain2
- A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Linuparus adkinsi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Adkins, W
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Linuparus adkinsi 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.
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What may have been alongside itLinuparus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1935