Anapagurus

Jannes Landschoff, University of Cape Town · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- 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 least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 129 ka.
9 occurrences of Anapagurus 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
9 occurrences- Eocene11%
- Miocene76%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene5%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anapagurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anapagurus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anapagurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
219 taxa- Lucanthonisia eotvoesi4 sites
- Pachygrapsus hungaricus4 sites
- Pagurus rakosensis4 sites
- Pilumnus mediterraneus4 sites
- Pisa oroszyi4 sites
- Xantho moldavicus4 sites
- Actumnus telegdii3 sites
- Calappa heberti3 sites
- Callianassa kerepesiensis3 sites
- Callianassa munieri3 sites
- Maja biaensis3 sites
- Matuta brocchii3 sites
- Mursia lienharti3 sites
- Parthenope szaboi3 sites
- Parthenope tetenyensis3 sites
- Petrochirus priscus3 sites
- Tarbellastraea3 sites
- Upogebia3 sites
- Albunea asymmetrica2 sites
- Brachynotus februarius2 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Callianassa chalmasii2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Dorippe margaretha2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anapagurus, 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
6 references- Decapod crustacea of the Badenian3
- Middle Miocene decapod Crustacea from southern Poland2
- La fauna di crostacei associati a coralli dell'Eocene Superiore di Campolongo di Val Liona (Monti Berici, Vicenz, Italia nordorientale)1
- Decapod crustacean fauna from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Arda, Stirone and Enza Rivers (Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia Provinces, N Italy)1
- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]1
- Decapoda (Crustacea) fauna a budapesti miocénből (5)1
Each of the 9 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 Anapagurus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jannes Landschoff, University of Cape Town
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anapagurus 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 itPaguridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henderson 1886