Mycteropidae

Mycteroptidae or Mycteropidae are a family of eurypterids, a group of extinct chelicerate arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". The family is one of three families contained in the superfamily Mycteropoidea, which in turn is one of four superfamilies classified as part of the suborder Stylonurina.

Mycteropidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MycteropoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–278 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence413.02 Mya254.14 Mya423 Mya249 Mya

14 occurrences of Mycteropidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

14 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

11 formations

Swope — 41.07°N, 96.08°WSwope — 41.47°N, 96.01°WSwope — 41.35°N, 95.88°WDennis — 41.14°N, 95.98°WDennis — 41.07°N, 96.18°WHermit Shale — 36.07°N, 112.13°WBajo de Veliz — 32.25°S, 65.52°WZub — 76.00°N, 104.00°EUpper Kittanning Coal — 40.80°N, 80.47°WRio Bonito — 28.42°S, 49.44°WLimestone Coal — 55.88°N, 3.15°WCharleroi — 50.41°N, 4.45°EBaralaba Coal Measures — 24.78°S, 150.04°EGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.20°N, 3.07°W

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The named rock units Mycteropidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mycteropidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mycteropidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mycteropidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Mycteropidae

Credit
Junnn11
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mycteropidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMycteropoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1886