Callianassa incerta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallianassaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Axiidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Callianassa incerta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Callianassa incerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Callianassa incerta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Callianassa incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis1 site
- Architectonica hornii1 site
- Bonellitia1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Conus hornii1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lighti1 site
- Divaricella cumulata1 site
- Exilia dickersoni1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Fulgoraria (Psephaea)1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Gemmula abacta1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata1 site
- Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini1 site
- Macoma1 site
- Macoma viticola1 site
- Mactromeris bisculpturata1 site
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana1 site
- Miltha packi1 site
- Molopophorus cretaceus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Callianassa incerta, 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
2 references- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
- The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America1
Each of the 2 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 Callianassa incerta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Callianassa incerta 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 itCallianassa through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1926