Callianassidae

Callianassidae is a family of ghost shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Axiidea, within the order Decapoda.

Callianassidae

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AxiideaPBDB
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 405 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 405 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 405 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 405 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 405 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 131 of 405 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 405 occurrencesEocene — about 93 of 405 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 405 occurrencesMiocene — about 82 of 405 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 405 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 405 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 2 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 7 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 8 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 30 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 18 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 27 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 35 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 33 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 10 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 41 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 39 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 30 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 26 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 35 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences143.1 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

405 occurrences of Callianassidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

405 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

139 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°ECotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.40°N, 74.03°WNavesink — 40.13°N, 74.56°WNavesink — 40.39°N, 74.09°WNavesink — 40.13°N, 74.52°WNavesink — 40.73°N, 74.22°WClayton — 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°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.66°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.62°WBřezno — 50.40°N, 13.42°EBřezno — 49.87°N, 16.31°EBřezno — 50.41°N, 14.54°EBřezno — 50.14°N, 15.12°EBřezno — 50.23°N, 15.21°ERoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 35.70°S, 69.67°WRoca — 35.47°S, 69.58°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WMerchantville — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.14°N, 74.72°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.54°N, 75.69°WBateque — 26.95°N, 113.06°WBateque — 26.94°N, 113.07°WBateque — 24.17°N, 110.92°WBateque — 26.42°N, 112.58°WBateque — 26.71°N, 112.97°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°WPflugerville — 30.33°N, 97.71°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°WPierre Shale — 44.90°N, 100.40°WPierre Shale — 44.98°N, 104.02°WPierre Shale — 44.78°N, 103.90°WPierre Shale — 43.91°N, 102.91°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.20°N, 98.38°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.87°N, 98.73°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 33.45°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 34.41°N, 88.98°WSan Pedro — 32.67°N, 117.14°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.17°WDenton — 33.78°N, 96.52°WDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WLincoln Creek — 46.80°N, 123.10°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.48°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.25°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Callianassidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 115 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 122 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callianassidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Callianassidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 256 sites for Callianassidae, and this reads 240 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

150 references

Each of the 405 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. 138 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 Callianassidae

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Callianassidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Dana 1852