Neocallichirus

Neocallichirus is a genus of ghost shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Axiidea, within the order Decapoda.

Neocallichirus

Sepahvand Vahid, Shahabi Saeed. First molecular evidence for two new associate copepods of genus Clausidium Kossmann,… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CallichiridaePBDB
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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 72 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 30 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 72 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Neocallichirus 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

72 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

24 formations

Gatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WKishima — 33.33°N, 129.97°EKishima — 33.45°N, 129.89°ECulebra — 9.09°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WBateque — 24.17°N, 110.92°WYoshino — 35.08°N, 134.16°EYoshino — 35.05°N, 134.07°EPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WSantiago — 33.21°N, 117.31°WMapulo — 13.75°N, 121.19°EJuana Diaz — 18.02°N, 66.85°WYanigua — 18.83°N, 69.68°WNorthumberland — 49.94°N, 125.18°WTaoyama — 33.33°N, 130.99°EMazantic Shale — 16.00°N, 92.00°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WArcadia — 29.29°N, 82.15°WArdath — 32.90°N, 117.23°WDrazinda — 31.62°N, 70.19°EMint Springs — 31.98°N, 89.33°WKunimi — 36.09°N, 136.05°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°EMoniwa — 38.20°N, 140.73°EMandog — 7.07°N, 125.57°ECantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°W

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The named rock units Neocallichirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neocallichirus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neocallichirus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

396 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Neocallichirus, 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

37 references

Each of the 72 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. 25 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 Neocallichirus

Credit
Sepahvand Vahid, Shahabi Saeed. First molecular evidence for two new associate copepods of genus Clausidium Kossmann,…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neocallichirus 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.

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. Sakai 1988