Palinuridae

Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langoustes, or rock lobsters are marine decapod crustaceans belonging to the family Palinuridae. Spiny lobsters are also, especially in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the Bahamas, called crayfish, sea crayfish, or crawfish, terms which elsewhere are reserved for freshwater crayfish.

Palinuridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
spiny lobsterPBDB
Sits inside
AchelataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 238 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 145 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 145 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 145 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 145 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 145 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 81 of 145 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 145 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 145 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 145 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 145 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 145 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 145 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 6 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences191–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 14 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 27 occurrences91–83 Mya — about 16 occurrences83–75 Mya — about 18 occurrences75–66 Mya — about 16 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences243.43 Mya5.333 Mya249 Mya0 Mya

145 occurrences of Palinuridae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

145 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

65 formations

Bissekty — 42.11°N, 62.65°EBritton — 32.00°N, 96.00°WBritton — 32.54°N, 97.07°WPawpaw — 32.73°N, 97.32°WPawpaw — 32.92°N, 97.33°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.59°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.79°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.86°EKrasnoyarka — 48.72°N, 142.66°EKrasnoyarka — 48.67°N, 142.64°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.09°N, 88.53°WRipley — 34.42°N, 88.91°WEagle Ford — 31.97°N, 93.18°WEagle Ford — 33.19°N, 96.91°WElm Fork Shale — 32.87°N, 96.93°WPflugerville — 30.33°N, 97.71°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.09°S, 57.15°WPender — 49.82°N, 125.18°WComox — 49.76°N, 125.37°WArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.55°EGuanling — 24.71°N, 104.33°ERancho Nuevo — 25.81°N, 101.12°WRancho Nuevo — 25.89°N, 101.12°WGober Chalk — 33.00°N, 95.00°WGober Chalk — 33.57°N, 95.72°WMerchantville — 40.60°N, 74.06°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WSanta Marta — 63.89°S, 57.97°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°WDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WTambo — 23.36°S, 144.70°ETambo — 23.27°S, 144.74°EEguino — 42.88°N, 2.20°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°E

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The named rock units Palinuridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palinuridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Palinuridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Palinuridae, 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

86 references

Each of the 145 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. 74 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 Palinuridae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. DrKjaergaard assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palinuridae 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.

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. Latreille 1802