List of prehistoric malacostracans

This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered malacostracans.[1] The majority of the genera are from the order Decapoda, for which a recent synopsis allows invalid names to be excluded.[2]

Branchioplax (Decapoda: Brachyura)

Order Decapoda

Suborder Dendrobranchiata
Aeger elegans (Aegeridae)

Infraorder Stenopodidea

Infraorder Caridea

Infraorder Astacidea
Palaeonephrops browni (Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea
Eryma mandelslohi (Jurassic)
  • Cedrillosia
  • Chimaerastacus
  • Clytiella
  • Clytiopsis
  • Enoploclytia
  • Eryma
  • Galicia
  • Glaessnericaris
  • Glyphea
  • Huhatanka
  • Jabaloya
  • Lissocardia
  • Litogaster
  • Mecochirus
  • Meyeria
  • Palaeastacus
  • Paraclytiopsis
  • Paralitogaster
  • Pemphix
  • Platychela
  • Platypleon
  • Praeatya
  • Protoclytiopsis
  • Pseudoglyphea
  • Pseudopemphix
  • Pustulina
  • Selenisca
  • Sinopemphix
  • Squamosoglyphea
  • Stenodactylina
  • Trachysoma

Infraorder Thalassinidea
Thalassinoides, an ichnofossil produced by a thalassinidean (Israel, Middle Jurassic)

Infraorder Achelata

Infraorder Polychelida
Eryon arctiformis (Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)
  • Antarcticheles
  • Coleia
  • Cycleryon
  • Eryon
  • Hasaracancer
  • Hellerocaris
  • Knebelia
  • Palaeopentacheles
  • Proeryon
  • Pseudocoleia
  • Rosenfeldia
  • Tetrachela
  • Tropifer
  • Willemoesiocaris

Infraorder Anomura
Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura
Harpactocarcinus (Eocene)
Megokkos alaskensis (Late Eocene)
Pulalius (Oligocene)

Order Aeschronectida

Order Amphipoda

Order Angustidontida

Order Archaeostraca
Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
  • Aristozoe
  • Baituganocaris
  • Callizoe
  • Caryocaris
  • Ceratiocaris
  • Dictyocaris
  • Dilophaspis
  • Dithyrocaris
  • Echinocaris
  • Eleutherocaris
  • Elymocaris
  • Gonatocaris
  • Guerichicaris
  • Hebertocaris
  • Heroldina
  • Kerfornecaris
  • Lebesconteia
  • Macrocaris
  • Montecaris
  • Nahecaris
  • Ohiocaris
  • Orozoe
  • Pephricaris
  • Ptychocaris
  • Pygocaris
  • Rhinocaris
  • Schugurocaris
  • Trigonocarys
  • Tropidocaris

Order Belotelsonidea

Order Canadaspidida
Canadaspis perfecta (Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian)

Order Cumacea

Order Eocaridacea
  • Anthracophausia
  • Devonocaris
  • Eocaris
  • Essoidea
  • Palaemysis

Order Hoplostraca

Order Hymenostraca

Order Isopoda
Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber (Eocene)
  • Anhelkocephalon
  • Archaeoniscus
  • Archaeosphaeroma
  • Cirolana
  • Cyclosphaeroma
  • Cymatoga
  • Cymodoce
  • Elioserolis
  • Eocopea
  • Eosphaeroma
  • Hesslerella
  • Heterosphaeroma
  • Isopodites
  • Palaega
  • Palaeocrangon
  • Palaeophreatoicus
  • Proidotea
  • Protamphisopus
  • Protosphaeroma
  • Saduria
  • Sphaeroma
  • Triassphaeroma
  • Unusuropode
  • Urda

Order Leptostraca

Order Lophogastrida

Order Mysidacea
  • Anthracaris
  • Bellocaris
  • Elder
  • Francocaris
  • Jerometichenoria
  • Mamayocaris
  • Notocaris
  • Paramysis
  • Paulocaris
  • Pseudogalathea
  • Pseudotealliocaris
  • Pygocephalus
  • Siriella
  • Tylerocaris

Order Palaeostomatopoda
  • Archaeocaris
  • Bairdops
  • Eopteridium

Phyllocarida incertae sedis
  • Aptychopsis
  • Discinocaris
  • Peltocaris
  • Protocimex

Order Stomatopoda

Order Tanaidacea
  • Acadiocaris
  • Anthracocaris
  • Carlclausus
  • Cretitanais
  • Eucryptocaris
  • Jurapseudes
  • Ophthalmapseudes
  • Palaeotanais

Order Waterstonellidea

See also

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (MALACOSTRACA)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
  2. 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.
  3. Jérôme Chablais, Rodney M. Feldmann & Carrie E. Schweitzer (2011). "A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85: 93–102. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0080-y.
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