Munididae

Munididae is a family of squat lobsters, taxonomically separated from the family Galatheidae in 2010.

Munididae

Macpherson E, Chan T-Y, Kumar AB, Rodríguez-Flores PC (2020) On some squat lobsters from India (Decapoda, Anomura, Mu… · 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
GalatheoideaPBDB
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 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya11.63 Mya152 Mya2 Mya

31 occurrences of Munididae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

31 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

17 formations

Basilika — 78.10°N, 14.53°EBasilika — 78.11°N, 14.60°EBasilika — 78.07°N, 14.28°ERio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.46°WRio Foyel — 41.72°S, 71.45°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EErnstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.36°EEstancia 25 de Mayo — 50.51°S, 72.25°WAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WLakšárska Nová Ves — 48.59°N, 17.40°EAsagaya — 36.51°N, 136.70°EHigashibessho — 36.74°N, 137.16°EMakah — 48.32°N, 124.47°WAstoria — 46.37°N, 123.81°WCentinela — 50.46°S, 72.20°WHoko River — 48.38°N, 124.66°WPoul Creek — 60.12°N, 142.99°WYamami — 34.72°N, 136.89°EFaxe — 55.26°N, 12.13°EKambuhel — 47.75°N, 16.03°E

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The named rock units Munididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Munididae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Munididae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Munididae, 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

19 references

Each of the 31 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Munididae

Credit
Macpherson E, Chan T-Y, Kumar AB, Rodríguez-Flores PC (2020) On some squat lobsters from India (Decapoda, Anomura, Mu…
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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ayhong et al. 2010