Actaeopsis

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Actaeopsis
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Xanthoidea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Actaeopsis
Species:
A. whiltshirei
Binomial name
Actaeopsis whiltshirei
Carter, 1898 [1]

Actaeopsis is an extinct genus of crab, containing the single species Actaeopsis whiltshirei [2] from the Lower Cretaceous. [3]

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References

  1. Carter, James (1898). "A Contribution to the Palæontology of the Decapod Crustacea of England". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 54 (1–4): 15–44. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.06.
  2. "†Actaeopsis Carter 1898". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  3. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology , Volume 2. Geological Society of America, 1953. Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert.