Calappilia | |
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Oligocenic fossil of Calappilia mainii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]
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 within this genus include: [1]
Fossils of Calappilia have been found in: [1]