Carpilioidea

Carpilioidea is a superfamily of crabs containing a single extant family, Carpiliidae and four extinct families. The modern range of the family includes the Indo-Pacific, Western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. The fossil record of the group extends back at least as far as the Paleocene.

Carpilioidea

Karelj · Public Domain · 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
HeterotremataPBDB
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 293 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 326 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 326 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 326 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 326 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 34 of 326 occurrencesEocene — about 238 of 326 occurrencesOligocene — about 14 of 326 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 326 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 326 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 326 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–61 Mya — about 30 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 50 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 124 occurrences41–30 Mya — about 86 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences293.52 Mya129 ka305 Mya0 Mya

326 occurrences of Carpilioidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

326 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

90 formations

Domanda — 31.33°N, 70.15°EDomanda — 29.93°N, 70.12°EDomanda — 30.87°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.98°N, 70.22°EDomanda — 30.14°N, 70.36°EDomanda — 30.77°N, 70.46°EDomanda — 29.95°N, 70.12°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.14°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ECrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.32°WCrockett — 31.35°N, 95.66°WCrockett — 31.03°N, 96.50°WCrockett — 30.00°N, 96.00°WCrockett — 31.00°N, 95.00°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 35.70°S, 69.67°WRoca — 36.83°S, 69.26°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WWeches — 31.26°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.26°N, 95.98°WWeches — 31.24°N, 96.25°WSanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.31°N, 118.67°WOcala — 29.77°N, 82.63°WOcala — 29.69°N, 82.57°WOcala — 29.42°N, 82.45°WOcala — 29.37°N, 82.46°WOcala — 29.19°N, 82.14°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WCook Mountain — 30.70°N, 96.50°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.65°N, 96.32°WArguis — 42.38°N, 0.67°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Clay — 50.67°N, 1.57°WJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 35.83°S, 69.67°WJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°WRancho Nuevo — 25.81°N, 101.12°WRancho Nuevo — 25.89°N, 101.12°WJackson — 34.23°N, 77.94°WJackson — 32.85°N, 90.41°WJackson — 31.91°N, 88.44°WJackson — 31.89°N, 88.45°WSantee — 33.33°N, 79.67°WSantee — 33.35°N, 80.23°WRoda — 42.36°N, 0.42°ERoda — 42.44°N, 0.27°ECastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.67°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WCastle Hayne — 34.86°N, 78.03°WKambuhel — 47.75°N, 16.03°EWills Point — 31.74°N, 96.49°WWills Point — 31.67°N, 96.57°WMaadi — 30.01°N, 31.28°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.62°WAldwell — 47.75°N, 122.85°WSzoc Limestone — 47.03°N, 17.52°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°E

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The named rock units Carpilioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 66 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carpilioidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carpilioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,519 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Carpilioidea, 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

151 references

Each of the 326 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. 139 further references are not listed. 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 Carpilioidea

Credit
Karelj
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carpilioidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itHeterotremata through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ortmann 1893