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| Genus: | Palaeopagurus Van Straelen, 1925[1] |
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Palaeopagurus is an extinct genusofhermit crab from the Lower Cretaceous.
A fossil of the species P. vandenengeli is notable for having been preserved in situ in the shell of an ammonite. Along with a lack of fossils of hermit crabs in gastropod shells from before the Late Cretaceous, this suggests that ammonite shells may have played a more important role in the early evolution of hermit crabs' characteristic shell-dwelling habits.[1]
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