Linuparus wilcoxensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinuparusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palinuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
6 occurrences of Linuparus wilcoxensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 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
- Rancho Nuevo Formation2
- Sucarnochee Clay Formation · Midway Group1
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Linuparus wilcoxensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Linuparus wilcoxensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Linuparus wilcoxensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Paraverrucoides alabamensis4 sites
- Callianassidae2 sites
- Hyphalocarcinus americana2 sites
- Caloxanthus1 site
- Claudioranina latacantha1 site
- Costacopluma texana1 site
- Diogenidae1 site
- Enoploclytia1 site
- Enoploclytia gardnerae1 site
- Hoploparia1 site
- Hoploparia johnsoni1 site
- Kierionopsis nodosa1 site
- Macroacaena venturai1 site
- Notopoides1 site
- Oncopareia cookei1 site
- Oncopareia cultellus1 site
- Paguroidea1 site
- Panopeus estellensis1 site
- Pithonoton cardwelli1 site
- Prehepatus1 site
- Quasilaeviranina arzignagnensis1 site
- Quasilaeviranina ovalis1 site
- Raninoides bournei1 site
- Raninoides treldenaesensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Linuparus wilcoxensis, 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
4 references- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain3
- Paleocene decapod Crustacea from northeastern Mexico: Additions to biostratigraphy and diversity1
- Decapod crustaceans from the Paleocene of Central Texas, USA1
- Paleocene Decapod Crustacea From the Rancho Nuevo Formation (Parpras Basin-Difunta Group), Northeastern Mexico1
Each of the 6 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 Linuparus wilcoxensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Linuparus wilcoxensis 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 itLinuparus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1935