Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Mecochirus ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Description

Mecochirus is an extinct genus of lobster-like decapod crustaceans, containing 17 species.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecochirus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4644232	https://www.gbif.org/species/4644232
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22539	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22539

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Mecochiridae : Mecochirus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
suborder	Pleocyemata	Burkenroad 1963
infraorder	Glypheidea	Winckler 1882
superfamily	Glypheoidea	Winckler 1882
family	Mecochiridae	Van Straelen 1925
genus	Mecochirus	Germar 1827

Scientific Name

Mecochirus Germar, 1827

Name Published In

Dtschl., 4

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mecochirus	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated without evidence	Glaessner, 1960
Mecochirus	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated with evidence	Feldmann et al., 1995
Mecochirus	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated without evidence	Garassino, 1996
Mecochirus	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 190 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

136 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecochirus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mecochirus chilensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus clypeatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus dubius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus eckerti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	176 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Mecochirus foresti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus germari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Mecochirus grandis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus houdardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Mecochirus leionoton ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus longimanatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus marwicki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	161 Ma Jurassic	149 Ma Late Jurassic
Mecochirus minimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus olifex ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus pearcei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Mecochirus peytoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus robbianoi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Mecochirus rostratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mecochirus socialis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1827	Mecochirus Germar
1960	Mecochirus Glaessner p. 9
1992	Mecochirus Collins and Rasmussen p. 7
1992	Mecochirus Feldmann and Keys p. 9
1995	Mecochirus Feldmann et al. p. 405
1996	Mecochirus Garassino p. 347
2002	Mecochirus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Glaessner M. F. (1960) The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31, 1-79

Feldmann R. M., Keys I. W. (1992) Systematic and stratigraphic review with catalogue and locality index of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod Crustacea of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Record 45, 1-73

Feldmann R. M. D., Vega F. J., et al (1995) A new species of Meyeria (Decapoda: Mecochiridae) from San Juan Raya Formation (Aptian: Cretaceous), Puebla State, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 69 2, 402-406

Garassino A. (1996) The family Erymidae Van Straelen, 1924 and the superfamily Glypheoidea Zittel, 1885 in the Sinemurian of Osteno in Lombardy (Crustacea, Decapoda), Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 135 2, 333-373

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkowski (2002) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Dtschl., 4 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Synonymy List References

Go to top of page