Calappa granulata

Isabelle Cheret · 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
- CalappaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Calappidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 5.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Calappa granulata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene92%
- Pleistocene8%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Calappa granulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calappa granulata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Calappa granulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Pagurus3 sites
- Ristoria pliocaenica3 sites
- Eriphia2 sites
- Goneplax rhomboides2 sites
- Maja squinado2 sites
- Anapagurus1 site
- Aspa marginata1 site
- Callianassa chalmasii1 site
- Carcinus1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chlinocephalus demissifrons1 site
- Dardanus substriatus1 site
- Ebalia cranchii1 site
- Eriphia cocchii1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) rudis1 site
- Lobocarcinus sismondae1 site
- Nassarius1 site
- Niso1 site
- Parthenope1 site
- Pilumnus1 site
- Pilumnus ristorii1 site
- Turricula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Calappa granulata, 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
3 references- Brachyuran and anomuran fauna from the Cenozoic of Piedmont (NW Italy)3
- New reports of anomurans and brachyurans from the Cenozoic of Tuscany (Italy)2
- Decapod crustacean fauna from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Arda, Stirone and Enza Rivers (Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia Provinces, N Italy)1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Calappa granulata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Isabelle Cheret
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calappa granulata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCalappa through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)