Avitelmessus grapsoideus

Avitelmessus is an extinct genus of crab from the Late Cretaceous Peedee Formation and Ripley Formation of the United States. The type and only species is A. grapsoideus.

Avitelmessus grapsoideus

Eduard Solà · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AvitelmessusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

17 occurrences of Avitelmessus grapsoideus 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

17 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

Ripley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 31.89°N, 85.15°WRipley — 34.99°N, 88.60°WRipley — 34.63°N, 88.81°WRipley — 34.93°N, 88.80°WRipley — 34.88°N, 88.73°WRipley — 34.83°N, 88.74°WRipley — 34.56°N, 88.90°WRipley — 34.17°N, 88.93°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 33.45°N, 88.79°WPeedee — 34.54°N, 78.28°WPeedee — 34.65°N, 77.90°W

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The named rock units Avitelmessus grapsoideus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Avitelmessus grapsoideus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Avitelmessus grapsoideus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Avitelmessus grapsoideus, 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 17 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 content1

Picture of Avitelmessus grapsoideus

Credit
Eduard Solà
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Avitelmessus grapsoideus 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.

The description on this site

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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 itAvitelmessus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1923