Hexapanopeus

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center · CC BY 2.0 · 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 most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hexapanopeus 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Hexapanopeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hexapanopeus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hexapanopeus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Calappa springeri1 site
- Callinectes1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Carpilius corallinus1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurypanopeus1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Mithrax1 site
- Mithrax hispidus1 site
- Mithrax verrucosus1 site
- Nanoplax xanthiformis1 site
- Neocallichirus peraensis1 site
- Panopeus1 site
- Panopeus rugosus1 site
- Persephona punctata1 site
- Petrochirus bahamensis1 site
- Pilumnus1 site
- Pitho anisodon1 site
- Raninoides louisianensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hexapanopeus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hexapanopeus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hexapanopeus 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.
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. Rathbun 1898