Dorippoidea

Dorippoidea Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Paradorippe granulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Subsection:	Heterotremata
Superfamily:	Dorippoidea Macleay, 1838
Families
Dorippidae Ethusidae † Goniochelidae † Telamonocarcinidae † Tepexicarcinidae (?)

Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs. ^[1] The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous. ^[2]

Dorippoidea contains the following families: ^{[3] [4]}

• Dorippidae Macleay, 1838
• Ethusidae Guinot, 1977
• † Goniochelidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2011
• † Telamonocarcinidae Larghi, 2004
• † Tepexicarcinidae (?) Luque, 2015

References

1. 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.
2. Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana . 81 (3): 271–287. Bibcode:2008Crust..81..271B. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.652.1701 . doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
3. "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". World Register of Marine Species . 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.
4. "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". Marine Species Traits. 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.