Persephona prepunctata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PersephonaPBDB
- 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 most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Persephona prepunctata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
19 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Cercado Formation · Yaque Group16
- Gurabo Formation · Yaque Group3
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The named rock units Persephona prepunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Persephona prepunctata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Persephona prepunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Calappa flammea12 sites
- Callinectes declivis8 sites
- Hepatus guraboensis7 sites
- Petrochirus inequalis7 sites
- Cryptosoma bairdii4 sites
- Mesorhoea mauryae4 sites
- Scylla costata4 sites
- Panopeus3 sites
- Calappa2 sites
- Portunus gabbi2 sites
- Portunus tenuis2 sites
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Aclis1 site
- Acteocina canaliculata1 site
- Acteocina recta1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) corcupidonis1 site
- Anadara (Hawaiarca) cibaoica1 site
- Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni1 site
- Anodontia alba1 site
- Aphera islacolonis1 site
- Arca (Arca) yaquensis1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Argopecten eccentricus1 site
- Astralium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Persephona prepunctata, 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
2 references- Decapod crustaceans from the Neogene of the Caribbean: diversity, distribution and prospectus18
- West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans1
Each of the 19 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 Persephona prepunctata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPersephona through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1919