Callianassoidea

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
- AxiideaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 68 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Callianassoidea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Eocene20%
- Oligocene20%
- Miocene20%
- Pliocene20%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Callianassoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callianassoidea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Callianassoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Amphistegina1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Austrohelice manneringi1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Callichirus1 site
- Caviomorpha1 site
- Cirolana makikihi1 site
- Crocodyloidea1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Folivora1 site
- Gastopoda indet.1 site
- Gyroidinoides1 site
- Heterostegina1 site
- Kowaicarcinus maxwellae1 site
- Necronectes collinsi1 site
- Neocallichirus aetodes1 site
- Pelomedusoides1 site
- Portunus yaucoensis1 site
- Pseudophragmina (Proporocyclina)1 site
- Scylla costata1 site
- Sebecidae1 site
- Upogebia kowai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Callianassoidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
5 references- Fossil isopod and decapod crustaceans from the Kowai Formation (Pliocene) near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand1
- New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory1
- Oligocene and Miocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean1
- New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile1
Each of the 5 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 Callianassoidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Hillewaert
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Callianassoidea 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 itAxiidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1852