Pagurus banderensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PagurusPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pagurus banderensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation · Trinity Group4
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The named rock units Pagurus banderensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pagurus banderensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Pagurus banderensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Necrocarcinus hodgesi2 sites
- Protocallianassa2 sites
- Protocallianassa klofi2 sites
- Roemerus robustus2 sites
- Aetocarcinus roddai1 site
- Bivalva sp.1 site
- Enallaster obliquatus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hillius youngi1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Paleodromites nageli1 site
- Preheats hodgesi1 site
- Torynomma densus1 site
- Trachynotocarcinus naglei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pagurus banderensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Lower Cretaceous, Glen Rose Limestone of central Texas3
- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain1
Each of the 4 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 Pagurus banderensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPagurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1935