Notopocorystes stokesi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NotopocorystesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
15 occurrences of Notopocorystes stokesi on record, most of them in the Early 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
15 occurrences- Early 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
5 formations
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Gault Formation1
- Upper Greensand Formation1
- Folkestone Greensand Formation1
- Cambridge Greensand Formation1
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The named rock units Notopocorystes stokesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notopocorystes stokesi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Notopocorystes stokesi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Joeranina broderipi6 sites
- Eumorphia houdardi4 sites
- Etyus martini3 sites
- Eucorystes carteri3 sites
- Homolopsis edwardsii3 sites
- Hoploparia longimana2 sites
- Orithopsis tricarinata2 sites
- Anchura1 site
- Beudanticeras1 site
- Cleoniceras1 site
- Cleoniceras (Neosaynella) inornatum1 site
- Cleoniceras cleon1 site
- Distefania transiens1 site
- Douvilleiceras1 site
- Entolium orbiculare1 site
- Eucorystes iserbyti1 site
- Eucorystes ligulatus1 site
- Glaessnerella decipiens1 site
- Glyphea carteri1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni1 site
- Latheticocarcinus brightoni1 site
- Leionucula1 site
- Neithea quinquecostata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Notopocorystes stokesi, 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- Crustacés décapodes nouveaux ou peu connus de l'époque Crétacique7
- A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata)5
- On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge2
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
Each of the 15 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 Notopocorystes stokesi
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No 3D scan of Notopocorystes stokesi 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 itNotopocorystes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1844)