Steorrosia aspera

Craddock, Ken · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- SteorrosiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Steorrosia aspera on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Pawpaw Formation · Washita Group3
- Denton Formation · Washita Group1
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The named rock units Steorrosia aspera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Steorrosia aspera and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Steorrosia aspera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Alkaidia sumralli2 sites
- Altairia wintoni2 sites
- Betelgeusia reidi2 sites
- Crateraster texensis2 sites
- Denebia americana2 sites
- Linuparus adkinsi2 sites
- Asteroidea1 site
- Callianassa cretacea1 site
- Callianassa valida1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Ctenochelidae1 site
- Cymatoceras1 site
- Dromia anomala1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Elektrocarcinus texensis1 site
- Engonoceras1 site
- Etyxanthosia pawpawensis1 site
- Feldmannia wintoni1 site
- Fomalhautia hortensae1 site
- Goniasteridae1 site
- Hoploparia dentonensis1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Lima1 site
- Macruran indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Steorrosia aspera, 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
3 references- Re-evaluation of the genus Xanthosia Bell, 1863 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) and description of two new species from the Cretaceous of Texas2
- A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway1
- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Steorrosia aspera
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Craddock, Ken
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Steorrosia aspera 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSteorrosia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rathbun 1935)