Journal article
Trace fossil evidence of coral-inhabiting crabs (Cryptochiridae) and its implications for growth and paleobiogeography
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Members of the Cryptochiridae are small, fragile, symbiotic crabs that live in domiciles in modern corals. Despite their worldwide occurrence with over 50 species known today, their fossil record is unknown. We provide the first unambiguous evidence of cryptochirids in the fossil record through their crescentic pits, typical for certain cryptochirids, in Western Atlantic fossil corals, while the Eocene genus Montemagrechirusis excluded from the Cryptochiridae and referred to Montemagrechirida...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Barbara and son James Toomey
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McGinty Endowment
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Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Endowment Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option C Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-03-02
- ISSN:
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2045-2322
- Source identifiers:
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612179
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pubs:612179
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- pubs:612179
- Deposit date:
- 2016-03-30
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- Klompmaker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Klompmaker et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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