Carcinoplax

Carcinoplax

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 41 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences37.71 Mya1.8 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Carcinoplax on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

41 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

16 formations

Maja — 26.35°N, 123.57°EMaja — 26.35°N, 123.40°ETen-no — 34.82°N, 138.05°ETen-no — 34.80°N, 138.92°ETano — 31.95°N, 131.26°ETano — 31.94°N, 131.28°EAya — 31.95°N, 131.27°ESoga — 34.72°N, 138.03°EIsland Sandstone — 42.03°S, 171.35°ETepetate — 24.10°N, 110.55°WHljikata Silt — 34.74°N, 138.02°ESetap — 4.05°N, 113.81°EHigashimorogata — 31.95°N, 131.28°EKoguchi — 33.62°N, 135.93°ESanikawa — 36.52°N, 136.70°EHigashibessho — 36.74°N, 137.16°EKurosedani — 36.57°N, 137.18°EAkeyo — 35.37°N, 137.24°EMandog — 7.07°N, 125.57°E

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The named rock units Carcinoplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcinoplax and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carcinoplax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Carcinoplax, 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

10 references

Each of the 41 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 content2

Picture of Carcinoplax

Credit
SSR2000
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itGoneplacidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1852