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Pulalius vulgaris

Porter, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA

Pulalius vulgaris

Porter, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA

Pulalius vulgaris

Porter, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4648291	https://www.gbif.org/species/4648291
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	225155	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=225155

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Tumidocarcinidae : Pulalius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
-	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	Latreille 1802
-	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
superfamily	Carpilioidea	Ortmann 1893
family	Tumidocarcinidae	Schweitzer 2005
genus	Pulalius	Schweitzer Feldmann Tucker & Berglund 2000

Scientific Name

Pulalius Schweitzer, Feldmann, Tucker & Berglund, 2000

Name Published In

Ann Carnegie Mus 69 (1), 18 February

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pulalius	genus	belongs to Xanthidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2000
Pulalius	genus	belongs to Tumidocarcinidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and A. B. Tucker, R. E. Berglund. 2000. Eocene decapod crustaceans from Pulali Point, Washington. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 69(1):23-67

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pulalius dunhamorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Pulalius vulgaris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2000	Pulalius Schweitzer et al. p. 37
2005	Pulalius Schweitzer p. 280
2010	Pulalius Schweitzer et al.

References

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2000) Eocene decapod crustaceans from Pulali Point, Washington, Annals of the Carnegie Museum 69 1, 23-67

Schweitzer C. E. (2005) The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838, Journal of Paleontology 79 2, 277-295

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann Carnegie Mus 69 (1), 18 February - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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