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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

Aeger elegans ( Aegeridae)

Infraorder Stenopodidea

Infraorder Caridea

Infraorder Astacidea

Palaeonephrops browni ( Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea

Eryma mandelslohi ( Jurassic)

Infraorder Thalassinidea

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

Infraorder Achelata

Infraorder Polychelida

Eryon arctiformis ( Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)

Infraorder Anomura

Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura

Harpactocarcinus ( Eocene)
Megokkos alaskensis ( Late Eocene)
Pulalius ( Oligocene)
†Aenigmacaris cornigerum SCHRAM & HORNER 1979 from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana

Order Amphipoda

Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Order Cumacea

Order Isopoda

Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber ( Eocene)

Order Mysidacea

Phyllocarida incertae sedis

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

Order Tanaidacea

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.