Etyiidae

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Etyiidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Paleocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Dromiacea
Superfamily:† Etyoidea
Family:† Etyiidae
Guinot & Tavares, 2001  [1]

Etyiidae is a prehistoric family of dromiacean crabs only known from Cretaceous and a few Paleocene fossils. [1] [2]

Genera

In their A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans (2009), De Grave and colleagues include seven genera in Etyiidae: [1]


More recently, several the more genera have been described and the family split into two. The World Register of Marine Species recognises eight genera in Etyidae and four in Feldmanniidae as follows: [2] [3]

†EtyidaeGuinot & Tavares, 2001 [2]

†FeldmanniidaeSchweitzer, Feldmann, Franţescu & Klompmaker, 2012 [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 WoRMS. "Etyidae Guinot & Tavares, 2001". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 WoRMS. "Feldmanniidae Schweitzer, Feldmann, Franţescu & Klompmaker, 2012". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 23 December 2022.


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