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

Infraorder Stenopodidea

Infraorder Caridea

Infraorder Astacidea

Palaeonephrops browni (Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea

  • Cedrillosia
  • Chimaerastacus
  • Clytiella
  • Clytiopsis
  • Enoploclytia
  • Eryma
  • Galicia
  • Glaessnericaris
  • Glyphea
  • Huhatanka
  • Jabaloya
  • Lissocardia
  • Litogaster
  • Mecochirus
  • Meyeria
  • Palaeastacus
  • Paraclytiopsis
  • Paralitogaster
  • Pemphix
  • Platychela
  • Platypleon
  • Praeatya
  • Protoclytiopsis
  • Pseudoglyphea
  • Pseudopemphix
  • Pustulina
  • Selenisca
  • Sinopemphix
  • Squamosoglyphea
  • Stenodactylina
  • Trachysoma

Infraorder Thalassinidea

Infraorder Achelata

Infraorder Polychelida

Eryon arctiformis (Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)
  • Antarcticheles
  • Coleia
  • Cycleryon
  • Eryon
  • Hasaracancer
  • Hellerocaris
  • Knebelia
  • Palaeopentacheles
  • Proeryon
  • Pseudocoleia
  • Rosenfeldia
  • Tetrachela
  • Tropifer
  • Willemoesiocaris

Infraorder Anomura

Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura

Megokkos alaskensis (Late Eocene)
Pulalius (Oligocene)

Order Aeschronectida

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

Order Amphipoda

Order Angustidontida

Order Archaeostraca

Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
  • Aristozoe
  • Baituganocaris
  • Callizoe
  • Caryocaris
  • Ceratiocaris
  • Dictyocaris
  • Dilophaspis
  • Dithyrocaris
  • Echinocaris
  • Eleutherocaris
  • Elymocaris
  • Gonatocaris
  • Guerichicaris
  • Hebertocaris
  • Heroldina
  • Kerfornecaris
  • Lebesconteia
  • Macrocaris
  • Montecaris
  • Nahecaris
  • Ohiocaris
  • Orozoe
  • Pephricaris
  • Ptychocaris
  • Pygocaris
  • Rhinocaris
  • Schugurocaris
  • Trigonocarys
  • Tropidocaris

Order Belotelsonidea

Order Cumacea

Order Eocaridacea

  • Anthracophausia
  • Devonocaris
  • Eocaris
  • Essoidea
  • Palaemysis

Order Hoplostraca

Order Hymenostraca

Order Isopoda

Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber (Eocene)
  • Anhelkocephalon
  • Archaeoniscus
  • Archaeosphaeroma
  • Cirolana
  • Cyclosphaeroma
  • Cymatoga
  • Cymodoce
  • Elioserolis
  • Eocopea
  • Eosphaeroma
  • Hesslerella
  • Heterosphaeroma
  • Isopodites
  • Palaega
  • Palaeocrangon
  • Palaeophreatoicus
  • Proidotea
  • Protamphisopus
  • Protosphaeroma
  • Saduria
  • Sphaeroma
  • Triassphaeroma
  • Unusuropode
  • Urda

Order Leptostraca

Order Lophogastrida

Order Mysidacea

  • Anthracaris
  • Bellocaris
  • Elder
  • Francocaris
  • Jerometichenoria
  • Mamayocaris
  • Notocaris
  • Paramysis
  • Paulocaris
  • Pseudogalathea
  • Pseudotealliocaris
  • Pygocephalus
  • Siriella
  • Tylerocaris

Order Palaeostomatopoda

  • Archaeocaris
  • Bairdops
  • Eopteridium

Phyllocarida incertae sedis

  • Aptychopsis
  • Discinocaris
  • Peltocaris
  • Protocimex

Order Stomatopoda

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

Order Tanaidacea

  • Acadiocaris
  • Anthracocaris
  • Carlclausus
  • Cretitanais
  • Eucryptocaris
  • Jurapseudes
  • Ophthalmapseudes
  • Palaeotanais

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. 1 2 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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