Macrophthalmus latreillei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacrophthalmusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Ocypodoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Ocypodoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Macrophthalmus latreillei 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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.
Macrophthalmus latreillei and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Macrophthalmus latreillei and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Macrophthalmus (Venitus) latreillei3 sites
- Podophthalmus vigil2 sites
- Amussiopecten praesignis1 site
- Anomalifrons lightana1 site
- Bentharca1 site
- Carcinoplacoides flottei1 site
- Charybdis1 site
- Eucrate1 site
- Galene bispinosa1 site
- Macropthalmus1 site
- Macropthalmus guamensis1 site
- Myra fugax1 site
- Neocallichirus1 site
- Neopycnodonta musashiana1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pecten (Chlamys) satoi1 site
- Philyra1 site
- Platylambrus1 site
- Pseudophilyra1 site
- Scylla serrata1 site
- Typhlocarcinops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Macrophthalmus latreillei, 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
6 references- Decapod Crustacea from the Ryukyu Group (Pleistocene) of Okinawa-jima, Japan2
- Decapod Crustacea from the Tyukyu Group (Pleistocene) of Okinawa-jima, Japan2
- Holocene fossil crabs (Macrophthalmus (Venitus) latreillei Desmarest, 1832) from Zhejiang, China1
- Holocene Macrophthalmus (Venitus) latreillei crabs from Trat Province: indicators of paleoshoreline1
- On the Early Holocene crab (Brachyura) fauna of Moyang Estuary, Guangdong Province. China1
- Fossil crabs from Guam1
Each of the 8 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 Macrophthalmus latreillei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Wilson44691
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Macrophthalmus latreillei 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 itMacrophthalmus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Desmarest 1822)