Mursiopsis

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Mursiopsis
Temporal range: Oligocene
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Fossil of Mursiopsis pustulosus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Calappidae
Genus: Mursiopsis
Ristori, 1889

Mursiopsis is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Mursiopsis pustulosus, Ristori 1889. [1] [2]

Fossils of crabs within this genus can be found in sediment of Oligocene (33.9 to 23.03 million years ago). [3]

References

  1. "PBDB Taxon". Fossilworks.
  2. "Mursiopsis Ristori, 1889". Global Biodiversity Information Facility .
  3. Sepkoski, Jack. Sepkoski's Online Genus Database http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=340&rank=class.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)