Eucopiidae

Eucopiidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Lophogastrida.

Eucopia grimaldii Nouvel, 1942, a relative of Eucopiidae — not Eucopiidae itself

Not Eucopiidae. This is Eucopia grimaldii Nouvel, 1942, a relative — both are Eucopiidae.

Claude Nozères · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
LophogastridaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245.19 Mya239.48 Mya247.5 Mya236.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Eucopiidae on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

16 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

Grès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.21°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.53°N, 7.43°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.71°N, 7.36°EGuanling — 24.78°N, 104.33°EFalang — 25.20°N, 105.01°EGrès à Voltzia — 49.24°N, 7.00°E

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The named rock units Eucopiidae 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.

Eucopiidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Eucopiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Eucopiidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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 Eucopia grimaldii Nouvel, 1942

Source
GBIF
Credit
Claude Nozères
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itLophogastrida through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1852