Carpilius

Carpilius is a genus of crabs in the family Carpiliidae, containing the following species:

Carpilius

Brocken Inaglory · 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
CarpiliidaePBDB
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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 20 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Carpilius 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

20 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

9 formations

Estancia 25 de Mayo — 50.51°S, 72.25°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ECoral Rock — 13.07°N, 59.52°WAldwell — 47.75°N, 122.85°WMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ECulebra — 9.02°N, 79.62°WLeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°EPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.82°W

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The named rock units Carpilius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carpilius and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carpilius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Carpilius, 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

16 references

Each of the 20 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. 4 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 Carpilius

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

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

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 itCarpiliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desmarest 1823