Dakoticancroidea
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Dromiacea |
| Superfamily: | †Dakoticancroidea Rathbun, 1917 |
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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
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1163/18759866-06704002.
- ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1907.1.1.
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