Crustacea

Searched as Crustacea indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Crustacea as the accepted name.

Crustaceans are mandibulate arthropods that are traditionally a part of the paraphyletic subphylum Crustacea. Crustaceans are mainly aquatic, including decapods, seed shrimps, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp. It is now well accepted that hexapods are cladistically crustaceans, with the two groups now combined in the monophyletic clade Pancrustacea. The three classes Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda, and Remipedia are more closely related to the hexapods than they are to any other crustaceans.

Crustacea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
crustaceanPBDB
Sits inside
ArthropodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 509 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 2 of 86 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 86 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 86 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 86 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 86 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 86 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 86 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 86 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 86 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 86 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 86 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 86 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 86 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 86 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 86 occurrences526–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–368 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–193 Mya — about 7 occurrences193–175 Mya — about 5 occurrences175–158 Mya — about 12 occurrences158–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–105 Mya — about 4 occurrences105–88 Mya — about 8 occurrences88–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences509.7 Mya129 ka526 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Crustacea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

86 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

50 formations

Pigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.29°N, 93.43°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WKinzers — 40.07°N, 76.37°WKinzers — 40.09°N, 76.35°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WBet Meir or Amminadav — 31.95°N, 35.26°EWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ECarlile Shale — 35.49°N, 105.89°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.59°WCedarburg — 33.00°S, 19.00°ETendaguru — 9.72°S, 39.22°EGriman Creek — 29.45°S, 147.79°EJandaira — 5.78°S, 37.36°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WTatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°ECapistrano — 33.48°N, 117.71°WChapelton — 18.33°N, 77.92°WCanoa — 1.08°S, 80.90°WTerres Noires — 44.30°N, 5.20°EMonti Climiti — 37.18°N, 15.12°E

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The named rock units Crustacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crustacea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Crustacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,898 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,356 sites for Crustacea, and this reads 240 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

65 references

Each of the 86 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. 53 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 content2

Picture of Crustacea

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djpmapleferryman
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CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
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the licence allows it

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brünnich 1772)