Dakoticancer overanus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DakoticancerPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
- Environment
- marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
13 occurrences of Dakoticancer overanus 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group9
- Ripley Formation2
- Magothy Formation1
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The named rock units Dakoticancer overanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dakoticancer overanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dakoticancer overanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
314 taxa- Inoceramus5 sites
- Baculites4 sites
- Latheticocarcinus punctatus3 sites
- Baculites grandis2 sites
- Bournelyreidus oaheensis2 sites
- Elektrocarcinus pierrensis2 sites
- Acirsa1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) americana1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) cretacea1 site
- Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) microstriata1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Acteonina1 site
- Acutostrea plumosa1 site
- Aenona1 site
- Agerostrea falcata1 site
- Alderina1 site
- Amaurellina stephensoni1 site
- Ammatophora1 site
- Amphiblestrum1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Anatimya1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anchura convexa1 site
- Anchura substriata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dakoticancer overanus, 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
8 references- Moults of Dakoticancer overanus, an Upper Cretaceous crab from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota3
- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain3
- New species of South Dakota Cretaceous crabs2
- Internal anatomy of a brachyuran crab from a Late Cretaceous methane seep and an overview of internal soft tissues in fossil decapod crustaceans1
- USGS Locality Compendium1
- Homolopsis mendryki: A New Fossil Crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous Dakoticancer Assemblage, Pierre Shale (Maastrichtian) of South Dakota1
- Homolopsis dawsonensis: a new crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) fromthe Pierre Shale (Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of Cedar Creek Anticline, easternMontana1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 13 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. 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 Dakoticancer overanus
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDakoticancer through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1917