Euphylax maculatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuphylaxPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Portunoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–742 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya14.3 Mya274 ka

8 occurrences of Euphylax maculatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

8 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

6 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WTubara — 10.87°N, 74.98°WMontezuma — 9.68°N, 85.04°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.11°N, 81.57°WTuira — 8.46°N, 77.70°W

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The named rock units Euphylax maculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Euphylax maculatus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Euphylax maculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Euphylax maculatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Euphylax maculatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Euphylax maculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Collins 2005