Necrocarcinus minutus
No picture of Necrocarcinus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Necrocarcinus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NecrocarcinusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Necrocarcinidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Necrocarcinus minutus on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late 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
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The named rock units Necrocarcinus minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Necrocarcinus minutus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Necrocarcinus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Caloxanthus formosus1 site
- Cenomanocarcinus inflatus1 site
- Cretacolana antiqua1 site
- Hoploparia trigeri1 site
- Lithophylax trigeri1 site
- Necrocarcinus labeschii1 site
- Paranecrocarcinus balla1 site
- Protocallianassa cenomanensis1 site
- Raninella elongata1 site
- Raninella trigeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Necrocarcinus minutus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata)1
- Un cas de paléocoprophagie chez un crabe du Cénomanien du Mans (Collection Boutillier, Université de caen)1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Necrocarcinus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Necrocarcinus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Necrocarcinus minutus 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 itNecrocarcinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1886