Superfamily Homolodromioidea Alcock 1900 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Parent taxon: Dromiacea according to F. J. Vega et al. 2019

See also Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Karasawa et al. 2011, Ng et al. 2009, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2009, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Ameridromia, Cyamocarcinus, Dromioidea, Dromiopsis, Eocarcinoidea, Eotrachynotocarcinus, Gemmellarocarcinus, Glaessneropsoidea, Glyptodynomene, Konidromitoidea, Mesodromilites, Oonoton, Ovamene, Polycnemidium, Roemerus, Stephanometopon

Subtaxa: Bucculentidae Eoprosopon Goniodromitidae Homolodromiidae Longodromitidae Prosopidae Tanidromitidae

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Type: Homolodromia

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Japan (1 collection)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene of Antarctica (6), Italy (4)

• Paleocene of Jamaica (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), France (8), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (1: Delaware)

• Jurassic of Austria (3), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Germany (9), Italy (1), Japan (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), Romania (19), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 100 collections including 202 occurrences

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