Callianassa

Callianassa is a genus of mud shrimps, in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus have been split off into a new genus, Pestarella, while others such as Callianassa filholi have been moved to Biffarius. The genus is named after the Nereid of the Greco-Roman mythology.

Callianassa

Adam White (1817–1879) · Public Domain · 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
CallianassidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Axiidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 296 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 296 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 296 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 296 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 296 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 59 of 296 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 296 occurrencesEocene — about 78 of 296 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 296 occurrencesMiocene — about 78 of 296 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 296 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 296 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–123 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 15 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 18 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 24 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 33 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 34 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 13 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 30 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 23 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 34 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences143.1 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

296 occurrences of Callianassa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

296 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

104 formations

Culebra — 9.09°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WMaadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EMaadi — 30.01°N, 31.28°EMaadi — 29.97°N, 31.13°EClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.71°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WClayton — 34.74°N, 92.29°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WWinona — 32.17°N, 88.83°WWinona — 32.00°N, 88.00°WYorktown — 36.76°N, 76.54°WYorktown — 36.75°N, 76.62°WYorktown — 36.88°N, 76.83°WYorktown — 36.20°N, 76.75°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 35.70°S, 69.67°WRoca — 35.47°S, 69.58°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WSanta Marta — 63.78°S, 57.83°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WSanta Marta — 63.87°S, 57.90°WAnguilla — 18.21°N, 63.08°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°WDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.62°WLincoln Creek — 46.80°N, 123.10°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.48°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WPflugerville — 30.33°N, 97.71°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.00°N, 96.00°WWeches — 31.24°N, 96.25°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.00°WDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 33.45°N, 88.79°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.14°N, 74.72°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.54°N, 75.69°WKishima — 33.32°N, 130.00°EKishima — 33.23°N, 130.07°ETepetate — 30.84°N, 115.28°WTepetate — 27.31°N, 112.77°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.07°W

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The named rock units Callianassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 112 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callianassa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Callianassa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Callianassa, 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

109 references

Each of the 296 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. 97 further references are not listed. 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 Callianassa

Credit
Adam White (1817–1879)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Leach 1814