Nephropoidea

Nephropoidea is a superfamily of decapod crustaceans. It contains the true lobsters in the Nephropidae, and three fossil families: Chilenophoberidae, Protastacidae and Stenochiridae. Their closest relatives are the reef lobsters.

Nephropoidea

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public Domain · 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
Also called
lobsterPBDB
Sits inside
HomaridaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 274 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 2 of 326 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 326 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 101 of 326 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 158 of 326 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 326 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 326 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 326 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 326 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 326 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 326 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences279–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–135 Mya — about 4 occurrences135–125 Mya — about 45 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 23 occurrences116–106 Mya — about 18 occurrences106–96 Mya — about 22 occurrences96–87 Mya — about 30 occurrences87–77 Mya — about 43 occurrences77–67 Mya — about 63 occurrences67–58 Mya — about 26 occurrences58–48 Mya — about 25 occurrences48–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences274.4 Mya129 ka289 Mya0 Mya

326 occurrences of Nephropoidea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

326 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

83 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.72°N, 0.79°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.19°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELondon Clay — 51.71°N, 0.74°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.04°ELondon Clay — 51.35°N, 1.00°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.70°ECalcaire à Spatangues — 47.60°N, 3.21°ELopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 63.83°S, 57.63°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.89°WMerchantville — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.06°N, 74.41°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.68°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WSanta Marta — 63.87°S, 57.90°WBearpaw Shale — 47.59°N, 106.89°WBearpaw Shale — 48.17°N, 107.38°WBearpaw Shale — 43.95°N, 102.99°WBearpaw Shale — 47.73°N, 105.83°WBearpaw Shale — 48.04°N, 106.61°WBearpaw Shale — 48.05°N, 106.47°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WDays Creek — 42.95°N, 123.36°WDays Creek — 42.56°N, 124.07°WDays Creek — 42.94°N, 123.37°WBad Heart — 55.67°N, 118.94°WBad Heart — 55.51°N, 118.15°WBilá Hora — 50.08°N, 14.32°ESnow Hill Island — 63.00°S, 57.00°WSnow Hill Island — 63.89°S, 57.58°WSnow Hill Island — 64.20°S, 56.83°WSnow Hill Island — 63.99°S, 57.42°WRio Mayer — 48.28°S, 72.00°WRio Mayer — 48.80°S, 72.15°WRio Mayer — 48.90°S, 72.25°WRio Mayer — 48.92°S, 71.92°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 34.56°N, 88.90°WRipley — 35.09°N, 88.53°WRipley — 35.00°N, 88.60°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EBearpaw Shale — 49.68°N, 112.83°WBearpaw Shale — 49.51°N, 112.93°WBearpaw Shale — 49.03°N, 110.64°WBritton — 32.00°N, 96.00°WBritton — 32.54°N, 97.07°WLefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WMount Laurel — 39.54°N, 75.74°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 65.57°S, 56.45°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 46.94°N, 108.14°WPender — 49.73°N, 125.10°WPender — 49.82°N, 125.18°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°WDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WTambo — 23.36°S, 144.70°ETambo — 23.27°S, 144.74°ETambo — 21.09°S, 149.17°EBearpaw — 48.02°N, 106.39°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.32°WBearpaw — 47.80°N, 107.27°W

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The named rock units Nephropoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nephropoidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nephropoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 237 sites for Nephropoidea, 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

117 references

Each of the 326 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. 105 further references are not listed. 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 Nephropoidea

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nephropoidea 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1852