Archaeocarabus whitfieldi
No picture of Archaeocarabus whitfieldi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeocarabus whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeocarabusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palinuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
2 occurrences of Archaeocarabus whitfieldi 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Miocene50%
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 Archaeocarabus whitfieldi 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.
Archaeocarabus whitfieldi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Archaeocarabus whitfieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Enoploclytia1 site
- Homolopsis atlantica1 site
- Hoploparia gabbi1 site
- Hoploparia gladiator1 site
- Latheticocarcinus dispar1 site
- Linuparus richardsi1 site
- Macroacaena tridens1 site
- Necrocarcinus rathbunae1 site
- Oncopareia1 site
- Palaeopagurus pilsbryi1 site
- Prehepatus dilksi1 site
- Prehepatus lenolensis1 site
- Protocallianassa mortoni1 site
- Protocallianassa praecepta1 site
- Pseudonecrocarcinus gamma1 site
- Raninella testacea1 site
- Tetracarcinus subquadratus1 site
- Xanthosia elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archaeocarabus whitfieldi, 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- A New Cretaceous Crab, Diaulax Millerae (Crustacea: Decapoda), from the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA .A1
- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain1
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
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No picture of Archaeocarabus whitfieldi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeocarabus whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeocarabus whitfieldi 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 itArchaeocarabus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry 1901)