Daira

Daira is a genus of crabs and is the only genus in the family Dairidae.

Daira

Uncredited · 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
DairidaePBDB
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 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 19 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Daira on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

50 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

11 formations

Arguis — 42.38°N, 0.67°WPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ENdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WCastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ERudeis — 26.12°N, 34.18°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°EMontpelier — 18.47°N, 77.58°W

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The named rock units Daira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Daira and its relatives

Miocene

Where Daira and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

716 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Daira, 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

29 references

Each of the 50 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 Daira

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Daira was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itDairidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Haan 1833