Dromia

Dromia is a genus of crabs in the family Dromiidae. It contains the following species:Dromia bollorei Forest, 1974 †Dromia corvini Bittner, 1893 Dromia erythropus †Dromia evae Collins, 2014 †Dromia fossata Dromia marmorea Forest, 1974 †Dromia neogenica Müller, 1979 Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898 Dromia personata †Dromia subglobosa

Dromia

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
DromiidaePBDB
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 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–506 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya5.333 Mya108 Mya506 ka

13 occurrences of Dromia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

4 formations

Ndalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ENdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°W

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The named rock units Dromia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dromia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dromia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

482 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dromia, 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

11 references

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 Dromia

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dromia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDromiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weber 1795