Calappa flammea

Calappa flammea, the flame box crab, is a species of crab native to the western Atlantic Ocean. It is a member of the box crab family, the Calappidae.

Calappa flammea

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 32 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Calappa flammea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

32 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

8 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WOak Grove — 30.93°N, 86.56°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.28°WChipola — 30.53°N, 85.87°WChipola — 30.47°N, 85.16°WChoctawhatchee — 30.64°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.79°N, 86.35°WTobabe Sandstone — 9.13°N, 81.81°W

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The named rock units Calappa flammea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calappa flammea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Calappa flammea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Calappa flammea, 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

8 references

Each of the 32 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 content2

Picture of Calappa flammea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCalappa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herbst 1794)