Dakoticancroidea

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Dakoticancroidea
Temporal range: Santonian–Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Dromiacea
Superfamily: Dakoticancroidea
Rathbun, 1917
Families

Dakoticancridae
Ibericancridae

Dakoticancroidea is a superfamily of fossil crabs, containing six species in five genera, divided into two families.[1] The family Dakoticancridae is only known from North American rocks of Late Cretaceous age,[2] while the single species in the Ibericancridae was found in Spain.[3]

Dakoticancridae Rathbun, 1917
  • Avitelmessus grapsoideus Rathbun, 1923
  • Dakoticancer australis Rathbun, 1926
  • Dakoticancer overana Rathbun, 1917
  • Seorsus wadei Bishop, 1988
  • Tetracarcinus subquadrata Weller, 1905
Ibericancridae Artal, Guinot, Van Bakel & Castillo, 2008
  • Ibericancer sanchoi Artal, Guinot, Van Bakel & Castillo, 2008

References

  1. Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. 
  2. G. A. Bishop, R. M. Feldmann & F. Vega (1998). "The Dakoticancridae (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Mexico". Contributions to Zoology 67 (4): 237–256. 
  3. Pedro Artal, Danièle Guinot, Barry van Bakel & Juan Castillo (2008). "Ibericancridae, a new dakoticancroid family (Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Spain" (PDF). Zootaxa 1907: 1–27. 


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