Goniodromites

Goniodromites is an extinct genus of crabs. A new species, G. kubai, which existed during the Oxfordian stage of what is now Poland, was described by Natalia Starzyk, Ewa Krzemiska and Wiesław Krzemiski in 2012.

No picture of Goniodromites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniodromites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniodromitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniodromitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 29 of 43 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 43 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 4 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 14 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

43 occurrences of Goniodromites on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

43 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

9 formations

Casimcea — 44.50°N, 28.42°ECasimcea — 44.47°N, 28.48°ECasimcea — 44.56°N, 28.04°ECasimcea — 44.40°N, 28.56°EEguino — 42.88°N, 2.18°WGault — 51.94°N, 0.64°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.79°N, 3.12°WZapotitlán — 18.42°N, 97.46°WHerpegem — 44.58°N, 41.42°EHythe Beds — 51.27°N, 0.19°E

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The named rock units Goniodromites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniodromites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Goniodromites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Goniodromites, 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

18 references

Each of the 43 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. 6 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

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No picture of Goniodromites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Goniodromites 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

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 itGoniodromitidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1858