Eumorphocorystes
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| 5 cm Carinoranina naselensis carapace | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Raninidae |
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| Genus: | †Eumorphocorystes Binkhorst, 1857 [1] |
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Eumorphocorystes is a genus of crab belonging to the Raninidae subfamily . Fossils of the genus have been found in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands. Rathbun referred specimens from the Oligocene Stepovak Formation of Alaska to this genus.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Joe S. Collins, René H. Fraaye & John W. M. Jagt (1995). "Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 40 (2): 165–210.
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- Crabs
- Prehistoric Malacostraca
- Prehistoric crustacean genera
- Cretaceous crustaceans
- Eocene crustaceans
- Oligocene crustaceans
- Maastrichtian genus first appearances
- Oligocene genus extinctions
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Fossils of British Columbia
- Fossil taxa described in 1857
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