Palaeocarpilius

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Palaeocarpilius
Temporal range: Eocene–Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Carpiliidae [1]
Genus: Palaeocarpilius
A. Milne-Edwards, 1862 [2]

Palaeocarpilius is an extinct genus of crab from the Eocene to the Miocene.[3]

References

  1. Regina Wetzer, Joel W. Martin and Sandra E. Trautwein (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships within the coral crab genus Carpilius (Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Carpiliidae) and of the Carpiliidae to other xanthoid crab families based on molecular sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27 (3): 410–421. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00021-6. PMID 12742746. 
  2. "Paleocarpilius". Vertebres Fossiles. Retrieved 2009-01-27. 
  3. David Ward. Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks). Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-7894-8984-5. 


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