Pylopagurus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaguridaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Paguroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pylopagurus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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.
Pylopagurus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pylopagurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Calappa praelata2 sites
- Pilumnus mediterraneus2 sites
- Actaea turcocampestris1 site
- Aphelesia1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Callianassa kerepesiensis1 site
- Carpilius antiquus1 site
- Charybdis mathiasi1 site
- Chlorodiella mediterranea1 site
- Daira speciosa1 site
- Dardanus arrosor1 site
- Dardanus hungaricus1 site
- Diogenes matrensis1 site
- Dromia neogenica1 site
- Dromiidarum1 site
- Dynomene emiliae1 site
- Haydnella steiningeri1 site
- Heterostegina1 site
- Liocarcinus rakosensis1 site
- Maja biaensis1 site
- Paguristes1 site
- Pagurus1 site
- Panopeus wronai1 site
- Parthenope1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pylopagurus, 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 referencesEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Pylopagurus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pylopagurus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaguridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1861