Glyphea

Glyphea is a genus of fossil glypheoid crustaceans that lived from the Jurassic to the Eocene. It includes the following species:

Glyphea

Albert Oppel · Public Domain · 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
GlypheidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glypheidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 42.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 86 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 86 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 86 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 23 of 86 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 86 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 86 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 86 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 86 occurrencesEocene241–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–193 Mya — about 3 occurrences193–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–179 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–172 Mya — about 4 occurrences172–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 22 occurrences158–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 6 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 4 occurrences124–117 Mya — about 8 occurrences117–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences227.3 Mya42.6 Mya241 Mya34 Mya

86 occurrences of Glyphea on record, most of them in the Early 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

86 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

34 formations

Terrain à Chailles — 47.65°N, 6.28°ETerrain à Chailles — 47.62°N, 6.09°ETerrain à Chailles — 47.56°N, 6.03°ETerrain à Chailles — 47.54°N, 6.05°ETerrain à Chailles — 47.66°N, 6.00°ETerrain à Chailles — 47.72°N, 6.09°EMaryborough — 25.30°S, 152.97°EMaryborough — 24.86°S, 152.09°EMaryborough — 20.84°S, 144.20°ESpartan Glacier — 71.13°S, 68.29°WSpartan Glacier — 71.57°S, 60.60°WDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.79°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.86°EAssise des Carreaux — 48.58°N, 0.40°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WAldwell — 48.22°N, 124.44°WAldwell — 47.75°N, 122.85°WTambo — 23.36°S, 144.70°ETambo — 23.27°S, 144.74°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.11°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EArida — 34.04°N, 135.17°EMata Amarilla — 49.80°S, 71.82°WAgrio — 37.98°S, 70.13°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EWaihao Greensand — 44.17°S, 170.95°ELombardische Kieselkalk — 46.00°N, 9.08°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WBladen — 34.64°N, 78.25°WOpalinus Clay — 47.45°N, 8.17°EShemshak — 36.44°N, 54.50°EBlue Lias — 50.73°N, 2.93°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Glyphea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyphea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Glyphea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

640 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Glyphea, 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

43 references

Each of the 86 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Glyphea

Credit
Albert Oppel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Von Meyer 1835