Achelous sebae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AchelousPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Portunoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Achelous sebae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Achelous sebae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Achelous sebae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Achelous sebae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Actaea acantha1 site
- Actaea bifrons1 site
- Calappa1 site
- Carpilius corallinus1 site
- Ceratoconcha barbadensis1 site
- Chthamalus fragilis1 site
- Hepatus lineatinus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Hyas1 site
- Laleonectes vocans1 site
- Lepidophthalmus jamaicense1 site
- Maguimithrax spinosissimus1 site
- Micropanope truncatifrons1 site
- Mithraculus forceps1 site
- Mithrax verrucosus1 site
- Myropsis1 site
- Nemausa acuticornis1 site
- Neocallichirus1 site
- Neocallichirus peraensis1 site
- Paguristes lymanni1 site
- Persephona1 site
- Petrochirus bahamensis1 site
- Ranilia constricta1 site
- Raninoides lamarcki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Achelous sebae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Descriptions and Biodiversity of Decapods in the Seroe Domi Formation of Curacao1
- Fossil Crustacea of the Late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation, west Port Morant Harbour, southeastern Jamaica1
Each of the 2 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 Achelous sebae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- (c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAchelous through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards 1834)