Callianopsis

Uncredited · 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
- CallianopsidaePBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
27 occurrences of Callianopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
27 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Poronai Series Formation6
- Pysht Formation5
- Toyohama Formation · Morozaki Group3
- Blakeley Formation2
- Rio Foyel Formation1
- Aldwell Formation1
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The named rock units Callianopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Callianopsis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Callianopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Macrocheira teglandi3 sites
- Mursia marcusana2 sites
- Styrioplax exiguus2 sites
- <vertebrate remains>1 site
- Acharax doderleini1 site
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Agelasidae1 site
- Agononida cerovensis1 site
- Anisospinos berglundi1 site
- Asthenognathus cornishorum1 site
- Asthenognathus microspinus1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Baricarcinus mariae1 site
- Bathynectes1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Branchioplax washingtoniana1 site
- Brecanclawu rathbunae1 site
- Bubaridae1 site
- Carinaranina marionae1 site
- Cirolana feldmanni1 site
- Crosniera schweitzerae1 site
- Ctenocheles hokoensis1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Daldorfia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Callianopsis, 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
9 references- Two Tertiary and One Cretaceous Crustacea from Hokkaidô, Japan7
- The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America7
- Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan4
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington3
- New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America2
- An Early Miocene regurgitalite containing basking shark remains from Slovenia: insight into cetorhinid paleoecology of the Central Paratethys1
- An Early Miocene deep-water decapod crustacean faunule from the Vienna Basin (western Carpathians, Slovakia)1
- New decapod crustaceans (Thalassinidea, Galatheoidea, Brachyura) from the Middle Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina1
- Three new Miocene species of Callianassa from Nagano Prefecture1
Each of the 27 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 Callianopsis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Callianopsis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCallianopsidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saint Laurent 1973