Glypheoidea

The Glypheoidea, is a group of lobster-like decapod crustaceans which forms an important part of fossil faunas, such as the Solnhofen limestone. These fossils included taxa such as Glyphea, and Mecochirus, mostly with elongated chelipeds. This group of decapods is a good example of a living fossil, or a lazarus taxon, since until their discovery in the 1970s, the group was considered to have become extinct in the Eocene. The superfamily Glypheoidea comprises five families. The two extant species, Neoglyphea inopinata and Laurentaeglyphea neocaledonica, are both in the family Glypheidae.

Glypheoidea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 208 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 42.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 311 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 311 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 66 of 311 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 17 of 311 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 311 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 35 of 311 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 54 of 311 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 76 of 311 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 311 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 311 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 311 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 311 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–241 Mya — about 62 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 12 occurrences233–226 Mya — about 4 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 5 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 2 occurrences204–196 Mya — about 7 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 7 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 8 occurrences181–174 Mya — about 8 occurrences174–167 Mya — about 14 occurrences167–159 Mya — about 39 occurrences159–152 Mya — about 15 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 17 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 13 occurrences130–122 Mya — about 9 occurrences122–115 Mya — about 31 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 9 occurrences107–100 Mya — about 11 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 6 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250.8 Mya42.6 Mya255 Mya33 Mya

311 occurrences of Glypheoidea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

311 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

82 formations

Trochitenkalk — 49.32°N, 8.86°ETrochitenkalk — 50.59°N, 9.52°ETrochitenkalk — 50.56°N, 9.61°ETrochitenkalk — 49.22°N, 9.21°ETrochitenkalk — 49.24°N, 8.91°ETrochitenkalk — 49.32°N, 8.70°ETrochitenkalk — 50.95°N, 11.25°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.53°N, 7.43°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.58°N, 7.49°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 47.80°N, 6.33°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.03°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°ETerrain 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°EOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°ESpartan Glacier — 71.13°S, 68.29°WSpartan Glacier — 71.57°S, 60.60°WSpartan Glacier — 71.46°S, 68.42°WSpartan Glacier — 71.48°S, 68.51°WSpartan Glacier — 71.59°S, 68.73°WSpartan Glacier — 71.99°S, 60.27°WOxford Clay — 52.33°N, 0.09°WMaryborough — 25.30°S, 152.97°EMaryborough — 24.86°S, 152.09°EMaryborough — 20.84°S, 144.20°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WSolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.11°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.79°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.86°EKarchowice — 50.49°N, 18.82°ESan Juan Raya — 18.34°N, 97.58°WSan Juan Raya — 18.53°N, 97.78°WAgrio — 37.27°S, 70.48°WAgrio — 37.98°S, 70.13°WLombardische Kieselkalk — 46.00°N, 9.08°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.79°EOpalinus Clay — 47.45°N, 8.17°EOpalinus Clay — 47.33°N, 7.84°ELiard — 56.16°N, 122.55°WLiard — 56.10°N, 122.87°WReingrabener Schiefer — 47.88°N, 15.07°EMeißner — 50.78°N, 10.04°EMeißner — 50.59°N, 9.52°EMeißner — 52.00°N, 10.72°EAssise des Carreaux — 48.58°N, 0.40°ENeptune Glacier — 73.38°S, 61.88°WArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°E

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The named rock units Glypheoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glypheoidea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 234 sites for Glypheoidea, 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

120 references

Each of the 311 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. 108 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 content1

Picture of Glypheoidea

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No 3D scan of Glypheoidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlypheidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Winckler 1882