Carcinoplax purpurea

Carcinoplax purpurea

Ng, Peter K. L. and Mitra, Santanu. Carcinoplax mistio , a new species of goneplacid crab from the Indian Ocean (Deca… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
CarcinoplaxPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Goneplacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–912 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

2 occurrences of Carcinoplax purpurea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

2 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

2 formations

Soga — 34.72°N, 138.03°EMandog — 7.07°N, 125.57°E

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

Carcinoplax purpurea and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Carcinoplax purpurea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Carcinoplax purpurea, 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

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

Media content1

Picture of Carcinoplax purpurea

Credit
Ng, Peter K. L. and Mitra, Santanu. Carcinoplax mistio , a new species of goneplacid crab from the Indian Ocean (Deca…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCarcinoplax through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1914