Calappa springeri
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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 least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Calappa springeri on record. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
2 formations
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
- Bowden Formation · Lower Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Calappa springeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Eurypanopeus2 sites
- Persephona punctata2 sites
- Petrochirus bahamensis2 sites
- Callinectes1 site
- Callinectes sapidus1 site
- Cancer1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Carpilius corallinus1 site
- Chlorilia sp.1 site
- Eriphia1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Eurytium limosum1 site
- Garthiope spinipes1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Hepatus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Hexapanopeus1 site
- Hyas1 site
- Mesorhoea sexspinosa1 site
- Mithrax1 site
- Mithrax hispidus1 site
- Mithrax verrucosus1 site
- Nanoplax xanthiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calappa springeri, 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
2 references- A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica1
- Decapod, stomatopod and cirripede Crustacea from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, St Thomas parish, Jamaica1
Each of the 2 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 Calappa springeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calappa springeri 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1931