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