Dakoticancroidea

Dakoticancroidea
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Dromiacea
Superfamily: Dakoticancroidea
Rathbun, 1917
Families

Dakoticancridae
Ibericancridae

Dakoticancroidea is a superfamily of fossil crabs, containing six species in five genera, divided into two families. The family Dakoticancridae is only known from North American rocks of Late Cretaceous age, while the single species in the Ibericancridae was found in Spain.

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
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