Menippe

Menippe is a genus of true crabs. One of the best known species is the Florida stone crab. Most of the species of this genus are found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Menippe

Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
MenippidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 28 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Menippe on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

28 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

13 formations

Santee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WChoctawhatchee — 30.39°N, 85.16°WChoctawhatchee — 30.64°N, 86.12°WChoctawhatchee — 30.39°N, 84.80°WChoctawhatchee — 30.42°N, 84.51°WJackson — 34.23°N, 77.94°WJackson — 33.60°N, 80.63°WJackson — 32.29°N, 90.19°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 33.49°N, 88.82°WNdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WFutuna Limestone — 18.45°S, 178.48°EFutuna — 18.44°S, 178.48°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.00°WGee Greensand — 45.18°S, 170.91°EVic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°E

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The named rock units Menippe 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.

Menippe and its relatives

Eocene

Where Menippe and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Menippe, 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 28 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 Menippe

Credit
Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itMenippidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Haan 1833