Mithrax hispidus

Noémy MOLLARET · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- MithraxPBDB
- 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 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Mithrax hispidus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene71%
- Holocene29%
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
- Coral Rock Formation3
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
- Falmouth Formation1
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The named rock units Mithrax hispidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mithrax hispidus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mithrax hispidus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Maguimithrax spinosissimus3 sites
- Mithrax verrucosus3 sites
- Carpilius corallinus2 sites
- Eurypanopeus2 sites
- Achelous gibbesii1 site
- Albunea1 site
- Calappa gallus1 site
- Calappa springeri1 site
- Callinectes1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Cycludius maculatus1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Garthiope spinipes1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Herbstia exserta1 site
- Hexapanopeus1 site
- Laleonectes vocans1 site
- Mithraculus forceps1 site
- Mithrax hemphilli1 site
- Nanoplax xanthiformis1 site
- Neocallichirus peraensis1 site
- Pachygrapsus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mithrax hispidus, 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
4 references- Tertiary and Pleistocene crabs from Barbados and Trinidad3
- Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II2
- A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica1
- The fossil arthropods of Jamaica1
Each of the 7 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 Mithrax hispidus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Noémy MOLLARET
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMithrax through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herbst 1790)