Eurypanopeus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- PanopeinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Xanthoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Eurypanopeus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene50%
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
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
- Gurabo Formation · Yaque Group1
- Bowden Formation · Lower Coastal Group1
- Falmouth Formation1
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The named rock units Eurypanopeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eurypanopeus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eurypanopeus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Calappa springeri2 sites
- Garthiope spinipes2 sites
- Mithrax hispidus2 sites
- Panopeus herbstii2 sites
- Persephona punctata2 sites
- Petrochirus bahamensis2 sites
- Albunea1 site
- Calappa gallus1 site
- Callinectes1 site
- Callinectes sapidus1 site
- Cancer1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Carpilius corallinus1 site
- Chlorilia sp.1 site
- Cycludius maculatus1 site
- Eriphia1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Eurytium limosum1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Hepatus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Hexapanopeus1 site
- Hyas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eurypanopeus, 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
4 references- A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica1
- Decapod crustaceans from the Neogene of the Caribbean: diversity, distribution and prospectus1
- Decapod, stomatopod and cirripede Crustacea from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, St Thomas parish, Jamaica1
- The fossil arthropods of Jamaica1
Each of the 4 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 Eurypanopeus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Eurypanopeus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPanopeinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1880