Panopeus

Panopeus is a genus of crabs, containing the following species:

Panopeus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PanopeinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Xanthoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 87 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 87 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 87 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Panopeus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

87 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

33 formations

Yorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.68°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 36.80°N, 76.59°WYorktown — 36.75°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 36.38°N, 77.06°WYorktown — 36.32°N, 76.73°WYorktown — 36.20°N, 76.75°WYorktown — 36.12°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 36.05°N, 76.72°WYorktown — 35.94°N, 77.56°WYorktown — 34.99°N, 76.85°WLookingglass — 42.56°N, 124.02°WLookingglass — 43.30°N, 123.10°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.84°S, 47.09°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.35°N, 78.18°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.54°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.11°N, 81.56°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.27°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EThomonde — 18.89°N, 72.04°WNdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WLillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.82°ECalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WDuplin — 34.51°N, 79.09°WCape May — 39.94°N, 74.07°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WLeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ECulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WLagunitas — 21.78°N, 79.34°W

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The named rock units Panopeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panopeus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Panopeus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Panopeus, 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

36 references

Each of the 87 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. 24 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 content2

Picture of Panopeus

Credit
FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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What may have been alongside itPanopeinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne Edwards 1834