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List of prehistoric malacostracans

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]

Branchioplax (Decapoda: Brachyura)

Order Decapoda edit

Suborder Dendrobranchiata edit

 
Aeger elegans (Aegeridae)

Infraorder Stenopodidea edit

Infraorder Caridea edit

Infraorder Astacidea edit

 
Palaeonephrops browni (Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea edit

 
Eryma mandelslohi (Jurassic)

Infraorder Thalassinidea edit

 
Thalassinoides, an ichnofossil produced by a thalassinidean (Israel, Middle Jurassic)

Infraorder Achelata edit

Infraorder Polychelida edit

 
Eryon arctiformis (Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)

Infraorder Anomura edit

 
Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura edit

 
Harpactocarcinus (Eocene)
 
Megokkos alaskensis (Late Eocene)
 
Pulalius (Oligocene)

Order Aeschronectida edit

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

Order Amphipoda edit

Order Angustidontida edit

Order Archaeostraca edit

 
Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Order Belotelsonidea edit

Order Cumacea edit

Order Eocaridacea edit

Order Hoplostraca edit

Order Hymenostraca edit

Order Isopoda edit

 
Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber (Eocene)

Order Leptostraca edit

Order Lophogastrida edit

Order Mysidacea edit

Order Palaeostomatopoda edit

Phyllocarida incertae sedis edit

Order Stomatopoda edit

 
†Tyrannophontes acanthocercus from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana

Order Tanaidacea edit

Order Waterstonellidea edit

See also edit

References edit

  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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