Merocryptus altavillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerocryptusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Leucosioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Merocryptus altavillensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Merocryptus altavillensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Merocryptus altavillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Achaeus parvulus1 site
- Brachynotus oligocenicus1 site
- Calliaxina altavillensis1 site
- Coeloma vigil1 site
- Corystites vicetinus1 site
- Daragrapsus trispinosus1 site
- Dromilites corvini1 site
- Ethusa berica1 site
- Galathea weinfurteri1 site
- Glabropilumnus granulatus1 site
- Palaeomunida defecta1 site
- Portunus ristorii1 site
- Tetralia loerentheyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Merocryptus altavillensis, 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 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Merocryptus altavillensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Merocryptus altavillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merocryptus altavillensis 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 itMerocryptus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Angeli et al. 2010