Family Mathildellidae Karasawa and Kato 2003 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mathildellidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Kato. 2003. The family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): Systematics, phylogeny, and fossil records. Paleontological Research 7(2):129-151

Parent taxon: Goneplacoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Acidopsidae, Carinocarcinoididae, Chasmocarcinidae, Conleyidae, Euryplacidae, Goneplacidae, Litocheiridae, Magyarcarcinidae, Martinocarcinidae, Progeryonidae, Scalopidiidae, Vultocinidae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (2), United States (4: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene of Italy (8), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Paleocene of Mexico (1), United States (2: Texas)

• Paleogene of Hungary (1), Mexico (1)

• Cretaceous of Mexico (3), USSR (1), Uzbekistan (1)

Total: 40 collections including 47 occurrences

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