Pyreneplax
No picture of Pyreneplax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyreneplax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VultocinidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Pyreneplax on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Santee Formation1
- Priabona Marl Formation1
- Margas de Pamplona Formation1
- Santee Limestone Formation1
- Roda Formation1
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The named rock units Pyreneplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyreneplax and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pyreneplax and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
210 taxa- Lessinicarcinus euglyphos3 sites
- Lessinipagurus granulatus3 sites
- Antonioranina oblonga2 sites
- Bittnerilia dentata2 sites
- Calappilia dacica2 sites
- Calcinus agnoensis2 sites
- Ceronnectes boeckhi2 sites
- Daira salebrosa2 sites
- Eocalcinus cavus2 sites
- Eocalcinus eocenicus2 sites
- Eopalicus squamosus2 sites
- Eopilumnus checchii2 sites
- Eucalliax vicetina2 sites
- Gollincarcinus levis2 sites
- Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata2 sites
- Hepatiscus neumayri2 sites
- Hepatiscus pulchellus2 sites
- Lathahypossia aculeata2 sites
- Lophoranina laevifrons2 sites
- Lophoranina reussi2 sites
- Maingrapsus quadratus2 sites
- Montezumella pumicosa2 sites
- Neocallichirus fortisi2 sites
- Neptocarcinus millenaris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pyreneplax, 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
7 references- A new genus, Martinetta, and two new species of xanthoid crabs from the middle Eocene Santee Limestone of South Carolina2
- New spider crabs (Brachyura, Majoidea) from the early Eocene of Spain with a reassignment of the species "Periacanthus" tetracornis1
- Pyreneplax basaensis new genus, new species (Decapoda, Brachyura, Vultocinidae) from the Priabonian (Late Eocene) of the Pyrenees of Huesca (Aragón, Spain), and remarks on the genus Lobonotus A. Milne-Edwards, 18631
- Crostacei decapodi dell'Eocene medio (Bartoniano) di Soave (Verona - Italia nordorientale)1
- The decapod crustacean from the Upper Eocene of Parona (Veronese Lessini - NE Italy)1
- Crostacei Eocenici di Grola presso Spagnago (Vicenza, Italia Settentrionale)1
- Aggiornamento ai crostacei di cava "Main" di Arzignano (Vicenza - Italia settentrionale) (Crustacea, Decapoda)1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Pyreneplax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyreneplax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyreneplax 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVultocinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ossó et al. 2014