Portuninae

Portuninae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 201 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 201 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 201 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 201 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 201 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 201 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 201 occurrencesMiocene — about 116 of 201 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 201 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 201 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 10 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 36 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 32 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 41 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 59 occurrences159 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

201 occurrences of Portuninae 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

201 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

54 formations

Pirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.82°S, 46.96°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WSandakan — 5.86°N, 118.04°ESandakan — 5.88°N, 118.06°ESandakan — 5.85°N, 118.07°ECercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WTalbot — 38.05°N, 76.52°WTalbot — 38.63°N, 76.29°WCape May — 39.94°N, 74.07°WDomanda — 30.87°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.13°N, 70.37°EGurabo — 19.54°N, 71.29°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WLagunitas — 21.78°N, 79.34°WChipola — 30.50°N, 85.20°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WBrasso — 10.51°N, 61.04°WBrasso — 10.39°N, 61.33°WDrazinda — 30.79°N, 70.44°EDrazinda — 31.62°N, 70.19°EPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.04°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WTuxpan — 20.47°N, 97.20°WTuxpan — 20.54°N, 97.46°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WYanigua — 18.87°N, 69.35°WYanigua — 18.83°N, 69.68°WThomonde — 19.81°N, 72.80°WThomonde — 18.99°N, 71.95°WSan Pedro — 32.67°N, 117.14°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WUpper Marine Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.53°ECantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°WKopili Shale — 25.30°N, 90.63°E

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The named rock units Portuninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Portuninae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Portuninae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,584 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Portuninae, 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

66 references

Each of the 201 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. 54 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 Portuninae

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

No 3D scan of Portuninae 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.

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. Rafinesque 1815