Menippe nodifrons

Menippe nodifrons, commonly known as the Cuban stone crab, is a species of crab found in warm tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. It is common in parts of Brazil, and is found in the United States in east-central Florida and off the coast of Louisiana.

Menippe nodifrons

Célio Moura Neto · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MenippePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Menippe nodifrons on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

4 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

3 formations

Chipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChoctawhatchee — 30.64°N, 86.12°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.00°W

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The named rock units Menippe nodifrons 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.

Menippe nodifrons and its relatives

Miocene

Where Menippe nodifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Menippe nodifrons, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Menippe nodifrons

Credit
Célio Moura Neto
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Menippe nodifrons 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.

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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What may have been alongside itMenippe through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1862