Upogebia

Upogebia is a genus of mud shrimp, in the family Upogebiidae, containing the following species:

Upogebia

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
UpogebiidaePBDB
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 245 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 30 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 30 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences245.19 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Upogebia 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

30 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

5 formations

Calcaire à Spatangues — 47.60°N, 3.21°EKowai — 44.61°S, 171.10°EYoshino — 35.05°N, 134.07°EPysht — 48.16°N, 123.96°WGrès à Voltzia — 48.03°N, 7.20°E

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The named rock units Upogebia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Upogebia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Upogebia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Upogebia, 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

14 references

Each of the 30 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Upogebia

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1814