Hoploparia longimana

Hoploparia is a genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephropidae. The type species of this genus is Hoploparia longimana.

Hoploparia longimana

Uncredited · 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
HoplopariaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nephropoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya72.2 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

16 occurrences of Hoploparia longimana 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

16 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

7 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WRio Mayer — 48.28°S, 72.00°WKunrade — 50.88°N, 5.93°EBenassal — 40.27°N, 0.24°ESandrock — 50.58°N, 1.28°W

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The named rock units Hoploparia longimana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoploparia longimana and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Hoploparia longimana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hoploparia longimana, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 Hoploparia longimana

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Hoploparia longimana 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.

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 itHoploparia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1826)