Dakoticancroidea

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

Dakoticancroidea
Temporal range: Santonian–Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Section:
Dromiacea
Superfamily:
Dakoticancroidea

Rathbun, 1917
Families

Dakoticancridae
Ibericancridae

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
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