Persephona

Persephona is a genus of true crabs in the family Leucosiidae. There are about 5 described species in Persephona.

Persephona

Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
EbaliinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Leucosioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 44 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Persephona 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

44 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

16 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WYorktown — 36.74°N, 76.60°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.29°WYorktown (?) — 35.48°N, 77.37°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WPamlico — 34.82°N, 76.74°WBrasso — 10.51°N, 61.04°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WTubara — 10.87°N, 74.98°WLagunitas — 21.78°N, 79.34°WMoin (upper) — 9.99°N, 83.06°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.24°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.56°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Persephona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Persephona and its relatives

Miocene

Where Persephona and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Persephona, 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

14 references

Each of the 44 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Persephona

Credit
Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Persephona punctata aquilonaris

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. Leach 1817