Thalassinidae

Thalassinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GebiideaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gebiidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Gebiidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya11.63 Mya108 Mya3 Mya

21 occurrences of Thalassinidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

3 formations

Sandakan — 5.88°N, 118.06°ESandakan — 5.82°N, 118.01°ESandakan — 5.81°N, 118.07°EArenas de Utrillas — 38.73°N, 1.12°WJinseki — 34.77°N, 133.30°E

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The named rock units Thalassinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thalassinidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Thalassinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Thalassinidae, 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

4 references

Each of the 21 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 content2

Picture of Thalassinidae

Credit
Show_ryu
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGebiidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1983