Mursiopsis

Mursiopsis
Temporal range: Oligocene
Fossil of Mursiopsis pustulosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Calappidae
Genus: Mursiopsis
Ristori, 1889

Mursiopsis is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Mursiopsis pustulosus, Ristori 1889. [1][2]

Fossils of crabs within this genus can be found in sediment of Oligocene (33.9 to 23.03 million years ago).[3]

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