Portunoidea

Portunoidea is a superfamily of crabs that includes the family Portunidae, the swimming crabs. Which other crab families are also placed here is a matter of some contention, and may be revised following molecular phylogenetic analyses.

Portunoidea

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
HeterotremataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
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 618 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 618 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 618 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 38 of 618 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 618 occurrencesEocene — about 98 of 618 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 66 of 618 occurrencesMiocene — about 278 of 618 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 47 of 618 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 618 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 17 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 20 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 24 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 28 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 29 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 33 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 41 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 82 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 88 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 92 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 128 occurrences159 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

618 occurrences of Portunoidea 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

618 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

165 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°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WPuerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.25°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.27°WGurabo — 19.54°N, 71.29°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WTalbot — 38.05°N, 76.52°WTalbot — 38.63°N, 76.29°WRoda — 42.29°N, 0.55°ERoda — 42.44°N, 0.27°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.97°S, 71.85°WNavidad — 37.83°S, 73.33°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.04°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WNdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WMiri — 4.81°N, 114.77°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.81°EEstancia 25 de Mayo — 50.51°S, 72.25°WKishima — 33.32°N, 130.00°EKishima — 33.23°N, 130.07°EKishima — 33.37°N, 129.93°EKishima — 33.45°N, 129.89°ECape May — 39.94°N, 74.07°WBrasso — 10.51°N, 61.04°WBrasso — 10.39°N, 61.33°WDomanda — 30.87°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.13°N, 70.37°EAkeyo — 35.37°N, 137.24°EFalaises de Fresco — 5.08°N, 5.62°WJuana Diaz — 18.03°N, 66.93°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WTuxpan — 20.47°N, 97.20°WTuxpan — 20.54°N, 97.46°W

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The named rock units Portunoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 141 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 220 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Portunoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Portunoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,086 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 345 sites for Portunoidea, and this reads 240 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

208 references

Each of the 618 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. 196 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 Portunoidea

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Portunoidea 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. Rafinesque 1815