Cambaridae

The Cambaridae are the largest of the four families of freshwater crayfish, with over 400 species. Most of the species in the family are native to the United States east of the Great Divide and Mexico, but fewer range north to Canada, and south to Guatemala and Honduras. Three live on the island of Cuba. The species in the genus Cambaroides are only found outside North America, as they are restricted to eastern Asia.

Cambaridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstacoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205.7 Mya56 Mya241 Mya47 Mya

4 occurrences of Cambaridae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

Morrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WLithofacies Association II — 35.87°N, 78.90°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°W

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

Cambaridae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cambaridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cambaridae, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Cambaridae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. MikeMurphy assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cambaridae 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAstacoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hobbs 1942