Tetracarcinus subquadratus

Tetracarcinus subquadratus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetracarcinusPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

26 occurrences of Tetracarcinus subquadratus on record, most of them in the Late 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

26 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

12 formations

Potrerillos — 25.73°N, 99.54°WPotrerillos — 26.06°N, 100.87°WPotrerillos — 26.05°N, 100.66°WPotrerillos — 25.94°N, 100.93°WCoon Creek — 34.39°N, 88.89°WCliffwood clay — 40.45°N, 74.22°WCliffwood clay — 40.41°N, 74.23°WCardenas — 22.46°N, 99.68°WCardenas — 22.46°N, 99.51°WWoodbury — 40.45°N, 74.17°WWoodbury — 40.72°N, 74.04°WMagothy — 40.44°N, 74.24°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WRipley — 34.37°N, 88.89°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WTinton beds — 40.40°N, 74.19°WLewis shale — 41.79°N, 107.40°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.63°W

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The named rock units Tetracarcinus subquadratus 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.

Tetracarcinus subquadratus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tetracarcinus subquadratus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Tetracarcinus subquadratus, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is 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

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Picture of Tetracarcinus subquadratus

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No 3D scan of Tetracarcinus subquadratus 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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What may have been alongside itTetracarcinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1905