Prehepatus

No picture of Prehepatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prehepatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesEocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya48.07 Mya115 Mya36 Mya

13 occurrences of Prehepatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

13 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

7 formations

Bateque — 26.95°N, 113.06°WBateque — 26.93°N, 113.08°WBateque — 26.42°N, 112.58°WMerchantville — 39.97°N, 74.99°WPotrerillos — 25.73°N, 99.54°WDuck Creek — 33.79°N, 96.53°WPrairie Bluff — 34.41°N, 88.98°WWills Point — 31.67°N, 96.57°WEnglishtown — 39.97°N, 74.96°W

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The named rock units Prehepatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prehepatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Prehepatus, 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

Each of the 13 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 content0

No picture of Prehepatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Prehepatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prehepatus 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 itBrachyura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bishop 1985