Penaeus

Penaeus is a genus of prawns, containing several commercially important edible species. The giant tiger prawn is the most important species of farmed crustacean worldwide.

Penaeus

self · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PenaeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Penaeidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Penaeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Penaeoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 15 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences199.5 Mya33.9 Mya205 Mya24 Mya

15 occurrences of Penaeus 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

15 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

7 formations

Ahlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EØlst — 56.83°N, 9.02°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ERipley — 35.00°N, 88.60°WCastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.57°EBeacon Limestone — 50.92°N, 2.91°WCellina — 46.18°N, 13.26°E

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The named rock units Penaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Penaeus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Penaeus, 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

10 references

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 Penaeus

Credit
self
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Penaeus 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 itPenaeidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1798