Callinectes

Callinectes is a genus of crabs containing species such as the Atlantic blue crab C. sapidus.

Callinectes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PortuninaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 63 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 63 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Callinectes 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

63 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

19 formations

Pirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.82°S, 46.96°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.19°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WTalbot — 38.05°N, 76.52°WTalbot — 38.63°N, 76.29°WCape May — 39.94°N, 74.07°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WChipola — 30.47°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.04°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WGurabo — 19.54°N, 71.29°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.61°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.17°WByram Marl — 31.52°N, 87.50°WYorktown — 36.73°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WLagunitas — 21.78°N, 79.34°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°WSt. Marys — 38.35°N, 76.39°W

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The named rock units Callinectes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callinectes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Callinectes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,075 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Callinectes, 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

19 references

Each of the 63 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Callinectes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPortuninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1860