Panopeus herbstii

Panopeus herbstii, also known as the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab, is a species of true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs. Panopeus herbstii are found along the western edges of the Atlantic Ocean in areas of North America, Central, and South America. Typically Panopeus herbstii feed on molluscs such as clams. Their conservation status is not marked but they are at risk due to habitat destruction and climate change along with ocean acidification.

Panopeus herbstii

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · 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
PanopeusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Xanthoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Panopeus herbstii on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

26 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

8 formations

Yorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.68°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 36.80°N, 76.59°WYorktown — 36.75°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 36.38°N, 77.06°WYorktown — 36.32°N, 76.73°WYorktown — 36.20°N, 76.75°WYorktown — 36.12°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 36.05°N, 76.72°WYorktown — 35.94°N, 77.56°WYorktown — 34.99°N, 76.85°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.35°N, 78.18°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WDuplin — 34.51°N, 79.09°WCape May — 39.94°N, 74.07°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°WFalmouth — 18.48°N, 77.45°W

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The named rock units Panopeus herbstii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panopeus herbstii and its relatives

Miocene

Where Panopeus herbstii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Panopeus herbstii, 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

Each of the 26 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 Panopeus herbstii

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Panopeus herbstii 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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What may have been alongside itPanopeus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Edwards 1834