Calappilia

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Calappilia
Temporal range: Paleogene-Mid Miocene
~55.8–15.97  Ma
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Oligocenic fossil of Calappilia mainii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Calappidae
Genus:† Calappilia
A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

Calappilia is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Calappilia verrucosa. [1]

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Fossils of crabs within this genus have been found in Italy, United States, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil from Paleogene to Miocene (age range: 55.8 to 15.97 Ma). [1]

Species

Species within this genus include: [1]

Distribution

Fossils of Calappilia have been found in: [1]

Paleogene
Miocene

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Calappilia at Fossilworks.org
  2. ↑ Benjamin T. Rumsey; Adiël A. Klompmaker; Roger W. Portell (2016). "Paleobiogeography of the fossil box crab Calappilia (Brachyura: Calappidae) with a new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of Florida, USA". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36 (3): 329–337. Bibcode:2016JCBio..36..329R. doi: 10.1163/1937240X-00002422 .
  3. ↑ A. Busulini, C. Beschin & G. Tessie (2014) A re-evaluation of extinct European crabs referred to the genus Calappilia A. Milne Edwards in Bouillé, 1873 (Brachyura, Calappidae)


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