Philyra

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- EbaliinaePBDB
- 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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
26 occurrences of Philyra 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
26 occurrences- Miocene81%
- Pleistocene15%
- Holocene4%
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
6 formations
- Dainichi Formation · Kakegawa Group3
- Miri Formation · Belait Group3
- Miri Formation2
- Mishan Formation1
- Sandakan Formation1
- Mapulo Formation1
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The named rock units Philyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Philyra and its relatives
MioceneWhere Philyra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Heikeopsis tuberculata4 sites
- Galene bispinosa3 sites
- Galene stipata3 sites
- Hiplyra platycheir3 sites
- Calappa2 sites
- Charybdis2 sites
- Glebocarcinus amphioetus2 sites
- Hexapus decapoda2 sites
- Iphiculus miriensis2 sites
- Leucosia2 sites
- Leucosia serenei2 sites
- Myra subcarinata2 sites
- Nucia borneoensis2 sites
- Nucia platyspinosa2 sites
- Nucilobus symmetricus2 sites
- Orthakrolophos bittneri2 sites
- Pinnixa microgranulosa2 sites
- Portunus obvallatus2 sites
- Portunus woodwardi2 sites
- Rhinolambrus sublitoralis2 sites
- Ammonia1 site
- Anomalifrons lightana1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Arcania1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Philyra, 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
9 references- Decapod crustaceans from the Miocene Kukinaga Group, Tanegashima Island, Kyushu, Japan11
- Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan4
- Miocene and Pleistocene Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Sabah and Sarawak3
- Neogene crabs from Brunei, Sabah, and Sarawak3
- First record of Miocene crustaceans from Hormozgan Province, southern Iran1
- Neogene and Quaternary Ghost Shrimps and Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Philippines1
- Two new species of decapod crustaceans from the middle Miocene Katsuta Group, Japan1
- On the Early Holocene crab (Brachyura) fauna of Moyang Estuary, Guangdong Province. China1
- Studies on Quaternary fossil crabs and associated faunas from Hainan Island, southern China1
Each of the 26 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 Philyra
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Marie HENNION
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Philyra 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEbaliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1817