Astacodes maxwelli
No picture of Astacodes maxwelli was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Astacodes maxwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalinurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palinuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Astacodes maxwelli 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Pflugerville Formation · Austin Group2
- Gober Chalk Formation · Austin Group1
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The named rock units Astacodes maxwelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astacodes maxwelli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Astacodes maxwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Callianassa2 sites
- Notopoides pflugervillensis2 sites
- Protocallianassa pleuralum2 sites
- Astrocratis acutispina1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Endoplocytia sp.1 site
- Enoploclytia1 site
- Gaudryina1 site
- Gaudryina (Siphogaudryina) austinana1 site
- Loxostomoides1 site
- Mecochiridae1 site
- Ophiuroidea1 site
- Pseudoclavulina1 site
- Pseudogaudryinella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Astacodes maxwelli, 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
3 references- Astrocratis acutispina, new genus and species, a new asteroid from the Late Cretaceous of Texas1
- Decapod crustaceans from the Pflugerville Member, Austin Formation (Late Cretaceous; Campanian) of Texas1
- Decapod Crustaceans from the Cretaceous of Texas1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Astacodes maxwelli was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Astacodes maxwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astacodes maxwelli was found in Sketchfab.
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 itPalinurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel 1945