Latheticocarcinus brightoni
Breton, Gérard · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- LatheticocarcinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Latheticocarcinus brightoni 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Latheticocarcinus brightoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Latheticocarcinus brightoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Latheticocarcinus brightoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Burrirhynchia devoniana1 site
- Distefania transiens1 site
- Eucorystes carteri1 site
- Eucorystes iserbyti1 site
- Eucorystes ligulatus1 site
- Glaessnerella decipiens1 site
- Glaessnerella kennedyi1 site
- Glaessnerella nodulosa1 site
- Goniodromites cenomanensis1 site
- Notopocorystes1 site
- Notopocorystes stokesi1 site
- Orbirhynchia wilmingtonensis1 site
- Orithopsis tricarinata1 site
- Ovatathyris ovata1 site
- Pseudonecrocarcinus biscissus1 site
- Pseudonecrocarcinus digitatus1 site
- Pseudonecrocarcinus foersteri1 site
- Rectithyris wrightorum1 site
- Terebratulina protostriatula1 site
- Wilmingtonia1 site
- Wilmingtonia satyrica1 site
- Xanthosia fossa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Latheticocarcinus brightoni, 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
Media content1
Picture of Latheticocarcinus brightoni
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Breton, Gérard
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Latheticocarcinus brightoni 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 itLatheticocarcinus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wright and Collins 1972)