Homarus brittonestris
No picture of Homarus brittonestris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Homarus brittonestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HomarusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nephropoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Homarus brittonestris on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Britton Formation · Eagle Ford Group1
- Eagle Ford Formation1
- Elm Fork Shale Formation · Eagle Ford Group1
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The named rock units Homarus brittonestris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homarus brittonestris and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Homarus brittonestris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni3 sites
- Ferroranina dichrous3 sites
- Homarus davisi3 sites
- Linuparus grimmeri3 sites
- Linuparus watkinsi3 sites
- Meticonaxius rhacheochir3 sites
- Sciponoceras gracile2 sites
- Allocrioceras1 site
- Astacodes davisi1 site
- Euomphaioceras septumseriatum1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Latheticocarcinus pikeae1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Moremanoceras scotti1 site
- Nucuia sp.1 site
- Placenticeras cumminsi1 site
- Worthoceras vermiculum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Homarus brittonestris, 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 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Homarus brittonestris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Homarus brittonestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Homarus brittonestris 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 itHomarus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel 1945