Calappilia
| Calappilia Temporal range: Paleogene - Miocene | |
|---|---|
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| Oligocenic fossil of Calappilia mainii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Calappidae |
| Genus: | Calappilia Milne Edwards 1873 |
Calappilia is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Calappilia verrucosa.[1]
Fossils of crabs within this genus can be found in sediment of Italy, United States, Mexico, Chile and Brazil from Paleogene to Miocene (age range: 55.8 to 15.97 Ma).[1]
Species
Species within this genus include: [1]
- Calappilia bohmi Glaessner 1929
- Calappilia bonairensis Van Straelen 1933
- Calappilia borneoensis Van Straelen 1924
- Calappilia brooksi Ross and Scolaro 1964
- Calappilia chilensis Feldmann et al. 2005
- Calappilia circularis Beurlen 1958
- Calappilia dacica Bittner 1893
- Calappilia diglypta Stenzel 1934
- Calappilia gemmata Beschin 1994
- Calappilia gorodiskii Remy 1959
- Calappilia hondoensis Rathbun 1930
- Calappilia incisa Bittner 1886
- Calappilia mainii Allasinaz 1987 (reassigned by some authors to Stenodromia)[2]
- Calappilia matzkei Bachmayer 1962
- Calappilia maxwelli Feldmann 1993
- Calappilia ocalanus Ross 1964
- Calappilia perlata Noetling 1885
- Calappilia scopuli Quayle and Collins 1981
- Calappilia sexdentata Milne-Edwards 1876
- Calappilia sitzi Blow and Manning 1996
- Calappilia subovata Beschin 2002
- Calappilia tridentata Beurlen 1939
- Calappilia verrucosa Milne-Edwards 1873
- Calappilia vicetina Fabiani 1910
References
- 1 2 3 Fossilworks
- ↑ A. Busulini, C. Beschin & G. Tessie (2014) A re-evaluation of extinct European crabs referred to the genus Calappilia A. Milne Edwards in Bouillé, 1873 (Brachyura, Calappidae)
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