Paguristes

Paguristes is a genus of hermit crab in the family Diogenidae. It includes the following species :

Paguristes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiogenidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Paguroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 43 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 43 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–6.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Paguristes on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

43 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

17 formations

Bateque — 26.54°N, 112.75°WBateque — 26.91°N, 113.04°WBateque — 26.42°N, 112.58°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EHoko River — 48.39°N, 124.66°WMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.64°EAldwell — 48.22°N, 124.44°WCoon Creek — 34.39°N, 88.89°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WNacatoch — 34.14°N, 93.06°WChipola — 30.47°N, 85.16°WCastle Hayne — 34.63°N, 77.67°WSantee — 33.35°N, 80.23°WTres Hermanos — 33.89°N, 106.60°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WSan Juan — 16.72°N, 93.14°WCantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WBowden — 17.89°N, 76.31°WSerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.54°E

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The named rock units Paguristes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paguristes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paguristes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

513 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Paguristes, 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

28 references

Each of the 43 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. 16 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 Paguristes

Credit
The original uploader was Aquaimages at English Wikipedia .
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paguristes 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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What may have been alongside itDiogenidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1851