Cenomanocarcinidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NecrocarcinoideaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
48 occurrences of Cenomanocarcinidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
48 occurrencesThese 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
26 formations
- Pawpaw Formation · Washita Group4
- Woodbine Formation3
- San Rafael Formation · Churuvita Group3
- London Clay Formation2
- Comox Formation · Nanaimo Group2
- Britton Formation · Eagle Ford Group2
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The named rock units Cenomanocarcinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cenomanocarcinidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cenomanocarcinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
365 taxa- Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni16 sites
- Cenomanocarcinus inflatus6 sites
- Ferroranina dichrous4 sites
- Linuparus grimmeri4 sites
- Corazzatocarcinus hadjoulae3 sites
- Homarus brittonestris3 sites
- Homarus davisi3 sites
- Linuparus watkinsi3 sites
- Meticonaxius rhacheochir3 sites
- Raninidae3 sites
- Campylostoma matutiforme2 sites
- Caridea2 sites
- Cenomanocarcinus2 sites
- Distefania incerta2 sites
- Eomunidopsis navarrensis2 sites
- Eomunidopsis orobensis2 sites
- Glyptodynomene alsasuensis2 sites
- Gourretia aquilae2 sites
- Homolopsis edwardsii2 sites
- Hoplitoides2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Palinuridae2 sites
- Pithonoton2 sites
- Pseudonecrocarcinus milbournei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Cenomanocarcinidae, 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
30 references- A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata)5
- Upper Cretaceous Crustacea from Mexico and Colombia: similar faunas and environments during Turonian times4
- Decapod Crustaceans from the Cretaceous of Texas4
- On some Panamerican Cretaceous crabs (Decapoda: Raninoida)3
- The Britton Notopocorystes Assemblage: An Eagle Ford Decapod Assemblage from the Cretaceous of North-Central Texas3
- New species of crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda), one from the Middle Danian of Denmark, and three new species from the Upper Cretaceous of Nigeria2
- Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada2
- Decapod and Stomatopod Crustaceans from Mass Mortality Lagerstatten: Turonian (Cretaceous) of Colombia2
- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas2
- Crustacés décapodes nouveaux ou peu connus de l'époque Crétacique2
- Archaeochiapasidae n. fam., a new early Cenomanian brachyuran family from Chiapas, Mexico, new hypothesis on Lecythocaridae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009, and phylogenetic implications (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Eubrachyura)1
- New and previously known decapod crustaceans from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey and Delaware, USA1
Each of the 48 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. 17 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 Cenomanocarcinidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cenomanocarcinidae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNecrocarcinoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guinot et al. 2008