Penaeidae

Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn, whiteleg shrimp, Atlantic white shrimp, and Indian prawn. Many prawns are the subject of commercial fishery, and farming, both in marine settings, and in freshwater farms. Lateral line–like sense organs on the antennae have been reported in some species of Penaeidae. At 210 metres per second (760 km/h), the myelinated giant interneurons of pelagic penaeid shrimp have the world record for impulse conduction speed in any animal.

Penaeidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PenaeoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Penaeoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 221 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 104 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 9 of 104 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 9 of 104 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 20 of 104 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 104 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 104 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 104 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 104 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 104 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 104 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 104 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 104 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 104 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 9 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 9 occurrences240–232 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 15 occurrences208–200 Mya — about 4 occurrences200–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 24 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–90 Mya — about 9 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences248.6 Mya27.3 Mya255 Mya18 Mya

104 occurrences of Penaeidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

104 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

24 formations

Dolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.93°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.59°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.78°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.55°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.54°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EEichstätt — 48.89°N, 11.18°EEichstätt — 48.90°N, 11.11°EØlst — 56.83°N, 9.02°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WSundance — 44.72°N, 104.61°WCintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ESierra Madre — 16.57°N, 93.27°WRipley — 35.00°N, 88.60°WCastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.57°EGrès à Meules — 48.83°N, 7.26°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ETrochitenkalk — 50.58°N, 9.52°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EBeacon Limestone — 50.92°N, 2.91°WBesano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EPabdeh — 32.41°N, 50.31°ESolnhofen Platenkalk — 48.92°N, 11.50°ECellina — 46.18°N, 13.26°E

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The named rock units Penaeidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Penaeidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Penaeidae, 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

40 references

Each of the 104 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. 28 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 Penaeidae

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Penaeidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815