Paguridae

The Paguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. The king crabs, Lithodidae, are now widely understood to be derived from deep within the Paguridae, with some authors placing their ancestors within the genus Pagurus.

Paguridae

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
PaguroideaPBDB
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 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 130 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 130 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 16 of 130 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 130 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 130 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 130 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 130 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 130 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 130 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 130 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 130 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 15 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

130 occurrences of Paguridae 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

130 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

34 formations

Oxford Clay — 52.33°N, 0.09°WOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.24°WOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.20°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.73°N, 99.06°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.20°N, 98.38°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.87°N, 98.73°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.95°N, 98.76°WSandakan — 5.86°N, 118.04°ESandakan — 5.88°N, 118.06°EMarno-Calcaires à Oolites Ferrugineuses — 47.89°N, 4.51°EMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WCastell'Arquato — 44.86°N, 9.88°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.54°EMakah — 48.34°N, 124.50°WCalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WNga Pari — 46.02°S, 167.70°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 86.35°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ESpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.24°WTen-no — 34.82°N, 138.05°EComanche Peak Limestone — 30.36°N, 97.79°WAldwell — 48.22°N, 124.44°WFutuna — 18.96°S, 178.95°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WLillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.82°EOpalinuston — 49.29°N, 11.40°EDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WMint Springs — 31.98°N, 89.33°W

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The named rock units Paguridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paguridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paguridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,726 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Paguridae, 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

64 references

Each of the 130 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. 52 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 Paguridae

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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. Latreille 1802