Mithrax verrucosus
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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.
8 occurrences of Mithrax verrucosus 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene88%
- Holocene13%
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
- Coral Rock Formation5
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Mithrax verrucosus 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 verrucosus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mithrax verrucosus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Carpilius corallinus3 sites
- Mithrax hispidus3 sites
- Hepatus praecox2 sites
- Laleonectes vocans2 sites
- Maguimithrax spinosissimus2 sites
- Neocallichirus peraensis2 sites
- Petrochirus bahamensis2 sites
- Achelous gibbesii1 site
- Achelous sebae1 site
- Actaea acantha1 site
- Actaea bifrons1 site
- Calappa springeri1 site
- Callinectes1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Ceratoconcha barbadensis1 site
- Chthamalus fragilis1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurypanopeus1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Herbstia exserta1 site
- Hexapanopeus1 site
- Hyas1 site
- Lepidophthalmus jamaicense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mithrax verrucosus, 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 Trinidad5
- A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica1
- Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica1
- Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II1
Each of the 8 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 verrucosus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mithrax verrucosus 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 itMithrax through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards 1832)