Image of mottled shore crab

Creatures » … » Animal » … » Arthropods » … » Typical Crustaceans » Malacostracans » … » Decapods » …

Creatures » Cellular Organisms » Eukaryotes » Opisthokonts » Animal » Bilateria » Protostomes » Ecdysozoans » Arthropods » Pancrustacea » Typical Crustaceans » Malacostracans » Eumalacostraca » Eucarida » Decapods » Pleocyematans » Crab » Eubrachyura » Thoracotremata » Grapsoidea «

Marsh Crabs, Shore Crabs, And Talon Crabs

Grapsidae MacLeay 1838

extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

show all records

first appearance

Paleobiology Database
neogenen period
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Neogene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

show all records
Paleobiology Database

23.03 million years ago

(max)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database
holocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Holocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

show all records

motility

Paleobiology Database
actively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile

Definition: uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis

show all records
(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

18

skeleton contains

Paleobiology Database
chitin
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_17029

Definition: An aminoglycan consisting of beta-(1->4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues.

show all records