Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
Parent taxon: Nephropidae according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2016
See also Glaessner 1969, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002, Tshudy and Sorhannus 2000 and Verheyden 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthacaris, Cardirhynchus, Dinochelus, Eoacanthacaris, Eunephrops, Homarinus, Hoploparia, Jagtia, Metahomarus, Metanephrops, Nephropides, Nephropinae, Nephrops, Nephropsis, Oncopareia, Palaeohomarus, Palaeonephrops, Paraclythia, Pseudohomarus, Thaumastocheles, Thaumastochelopsis, Thymopides, Thymops, Thymopsis
Subtaxa: Homarus americanus Homarus brittonestris Homarus davisi Homarus fami Homarus gammarus Homarus hakelensis Homarus lehmanni Homarus mickelsoni Homarus morrisi Homarus neptunianus Homarus percyi Homarus travisensis Homarus vulgaris
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: New Brunswick collection), United States (1: Connecticut)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (2)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of France (7), Lebanon (2), Switzerland (1), United States (3: Arizona, Texas)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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