Carcininae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarcinidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Portunoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Carcininae 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
22 occurrences- Eocene32%
- Miocene23%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene20%
- Holocene18%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Carcininae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carcininae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Carcininae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
341 taxa- Carcinus maenas6 sites
- Callianassa munieri4 sites
- Miopipus pygmeus4 sites
- Actumnus telegdii3 sites
- Calappa heberti3 sites
- Carcinus3 sites
- Galathea weinfurteri3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Liocarcinus rakosensis3 sites
- Parthenope szaboi3 sites
- Petrochirus priscus3 sites
- Pilumnus mediterraneus3 sites
- Xantho moldavicus3 sites
- Acanthogalathea devecchii2 sites
- Alectoris rufa2 sites
- Archaeotetra lessinea2 sites
- Bittnereus vicentinus2 sites
- Brachynotus corallinus2 sites
- Brachynotus februarius2 sites
- Calappilia hondoensis2 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Callianassa chalmasii2 sites
- Callianassa kerepesiensis2 sites
- Canis familiaris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Carcininae, 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
16 references- Humans and marine resource interaction reappraised: Archaeofauna remains during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in Cantabrian Spain4
- I crostacei associati a coralli nell’Eocene inferiore dell’area di Bolca (Verona e Vicenza, Italia nordorientale)2
- Decapod crustacea of the Badenian2
- The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America2
- New report of decapod and isopod crustaceans from the Lower-Middle Pleistocene of Montalbano Jonico, Matera (Basilicata, southern Italy)1
- Animal remains from 17th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal.1
- A fauna da Idade do Ferro e da Época Romana de Monte Molião (Lagos, Algarve): continuidades e rupturas na dieta alimentar1
- A new coral-associated decapod assemblage from the Upper Miocene (Messinian) Upper Coralline Limestone of Malta (central Mediterranean)1
- Review and additions to the Eocene decapod Crustacea from Chiapas, Mexico1
- New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- Decapod crustacean fauna from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Arda, Stirone and Enza Rivers (Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia Provinces, N Italy)1
- Brachyuran and anomuran fauna from the Cenozoic of Piedmont (NW Italy)1
Each of the 22 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. 4 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 Carcininae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Hillewaert
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carcininae 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 itCarcinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacLeay 1838