Family Paguridae Latreille 1802 (hermit crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Paguridae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Paguroidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Ammopylocheles, Annuntidiogenidae, Calcinidae, Coenobitidae, Diogenidae, Eopaguropsis, Eotylaspis, Jurapylocheles, Orhomalus, Parapaguridae, Parapylochelidae, Pylochelidae, Schobertellidae, Xylopaguridae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (11: Califormia, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusets, North Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (3), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Fiji (1), Hungary (7), Malaysia (4), Malta (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1)

• Neogene of Poland (2)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Italy (3), Spain (2), Tonga (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Paleogene of Hungary (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Cretaceous of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Alabama, New Jersey, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (9)

Total: 78 collections including 97 occurrences

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