Pulalius vulgaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PulaliusPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pulalius vulgaris on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pulalius vulgaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pulalius vulgaris and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pulalius vulgaris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- ? Brisingida indet.1 site
- Acharax1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) nehalemensis1 site
- Adekunbiella durhami1 site
- Anechinocardium weaveri1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Branchioplax washingtoniana1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Carpilius occidentalis1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis1 site
- Conchocele bathyaulax1 site
- Crustacea indet.1 site
- Delectopecten1 site
- Desmostylidae1 site
- Ennucula keaseyensis1 site
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyensis1 site
- Exilia lincolnensis1 site
- Flabellum hertleini1 site
- Fulgurofusus1 site
- Glyphea micheleae1 site
- Isocrinus nehalemensis1 site
- Laeviranina goedertorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pulalius vulgaris, 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
2 references- Inferences for grooming behavior drawn from epibionts on early to middle Cenozoic crabs of Oregon and Washington state, USA2
- Eocene decapod crustaceans from Pulali Point, Washington1
Each of the 3 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 Pulalius vulgaris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pulalius vulgaris 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPulalius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rathbun 1926)