List of prehistoric malacostracans

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Branchioplax (Decapoda: Brachyura)

This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered malacostracans.[1] The majority of the genera are from the order Decapoda, for which a recent synopsis allows invalid names to be excluded.[2]

Order Decapoda[]

Suborder Dendrobranchiata[]

Aeger elegans (Aegeridae)

Infraorder Stenopodidea[]

Infraorder Caridea[]

Infraorder Astacidea[]

(Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea[]

Eryma mandelslohi (Jurassic)

Infraorder Thalassinidea[]

Thalassinoides, an ichnofossil produced by a thalassinidean (Israel, Middle Jurassic)
  • Axius
  • Callianassa
  • Callichirus
  • Laomedia
  • Lepidophthalmus
  • Melipal
  • Neotrypaea
  • Thalassina
  • Trypaea
  • Upogebia

Infraorder Achelata[]

Infraorder Polychelida[]

(Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)

Infraorder Anomura[]

Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura[]

Harpactocarcinus (Eocene)
(Late Eocene)
(Oligocene)

Order Aeschronectida[]

†Aenigmacaris cornigerum SCHRAM & HORNER 1979 from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana

Order Amphipoda[]

Order Angustidontida[]

Order []

Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
  • Ceratiocaris

Order []

  • Belotelson

Order Canadaspidida[]

Canadaspis perfecta (Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian)

Order Cumacea[]

  • Nannastacus
  • Palaeocuma

Order []

Order []

Order Hymenostraca[]

Order Isopoda[]

Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber (Eocene)
  • Archaeoniscus
  • Cirolana
  • Saduria
  • Sphaeroma

Order Leptostraca[]

Order Lophogastrida[]

Order Mysidacea[]

  • Paramysis
  • Siriella

Order []

Phyllocarida incertae sedis[]

Order Stomatopoda[]

†Tyrannophontes acanthocercus from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana
  • Gonodactylus
  • Hemisquilla
  • Lysiosquilla
  • Pseudosquilla
  • Squilla

Order Tanaidacea[]

  • Acadiocaris

Order Waterstonellidea[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (MALACOSTRACA)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Jérôme Chablais, Rodney M. Feldmann & Carrie E. Schweitzer (2011). "A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85: 93–102. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0080-y.
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