Parthenopidae

Parthenopidae is a family of crabs, placed in its own superfamily, Parthenopoidea. It comprises nearly 40 genera, divided into two subfamilies, with three genera incertae sedis:

Parthenopidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParthenopoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 127 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 127 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 127 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 127 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 127 occurrencesMiocene — about 56 of 127 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 127 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Parthenopidae 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

127 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

36 formations

Sandakan — 5.86°N, 118.04°ESandakan — 5.88°N, 118.06°ESandakan — 5.85°N, 118.07°ECercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WSetap — 4.05°N, 113.81°ESantee — 33.35°N, 80.23°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.03°WCaujarao — 11.49°N, 69.50°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°WCalcaire à Spatangues — 47.60°N, 3.21°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WBateque — 26.95°N, 113.06°WCastell'Arquato — 44.86°N, 9.88°EAoso — 38.34°N, 140.93°EThomonde — 18.89°N, 72.04°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.17°WTemblor — 35.71°N, 119.98°WCaloosahatchee — 26.88°N, 82.06°WMiri — 4.87°N, 114.81°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°EAkeyo — 35.34°N, 137.38°EPriabona Marl — 45.47°N, 10.97°E

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The named rock units Parthenopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parthenopidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parthenopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,835 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Parthenopidae, 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

52 references

Each of the 127 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. 40 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 Parthenopidae

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No 3D scan of Parthenopidae 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

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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. Macleay 1838