Osachila

Osachila is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing three fossil species, and the following extant species:Osachila acuta Stimpson, 1871 Osachila antillensis Rathbun, 1916 Osachila expansa Takeda, 1977 Osachila galapagensis Rathbun, 1935 Osachila kaiserae Zimmerman & Martin, 1999 Osachila lata Faxon, 1893 Osachila levis Rathbun, 1898 Osachila semilevis Rathbun, 1916 Osachila sona Garth, 1940 Osachila stimpsonii Studer, 1883 Osachila tuberosa Stimpson, 1871

Osachila

CORBARI & POUPIN · 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
AethridaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33.9 Mya11.63 Mya38.3 Mya6.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Osachila 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

4 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

1 formation

Puerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.27°W

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The named rock units Osachila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osachila and its relatives

Miocene

Where Osachila and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Osachila, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Osachila

Credit
CORBARI & POUPIN
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Osachila 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.

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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What may have been alongside itAethridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1871