Caridea

The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp (from Ancient Greek καρίς, καρίδος, are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Many other animals with similar names – such as the mud shrimp of Axiidea and the boxer shrimp of Stenopodidea – are not true shrimp, but many have evolved features similar to true shrimp.

Caridea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
shrimpPBDB
Sits inside
PleocyemataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 239 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 73 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 73 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 73 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 73 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 73 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 8 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 6 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence239.48 Mya129 ka246 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Caridea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

73 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

26 formations

Headon Hill — 50.74°N, 1.22°WHeadon Hill — 50.71°N, 1.10°WFur — 56.84°N, 9.02°EFur — 56.95°N, 8.88°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WLa Huérguina — 41.99°N, 0.99°EMaikop — 44.38°N, 39.78°EChiusole — 46.08°N, 11.12°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EAurisina — 45.78°N, 13.59°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.55°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.79°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.86°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EEichstätt — 48.89°N, 11.18°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WMeissner — 50.88°N, 11.50°ECulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WSolnhofen Platenkalk — 48.92°N, 11.50°EChuruvita — 5.60°N, 73.05°WCintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WIpubi — 7.75°S, 40.47°WRomualdo — 7.42°S, 39.12°W

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The named rock units Caridea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caridea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Caridea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

887 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Caridea, 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

44 references

Each of the 73 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. 32 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 Caridea

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1852