Family Upogebiidae Borradaile 1903 (mud shrimp)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Upogebiidae

Parent taxon: Gebiidea according to S. De Grave et al. 2009

See also Hegna et al. 2020, Karasawa 1993 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Axianassidae, Laomediidae, Thalassinidae

Subtaxa: Acutigebia Austinogebia Upogebia

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Type: Upogebia

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of New Zealand (1 collection)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Hungary (5), Italy (1), Japan (12), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Paleogene of Belgium (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of France (1)

• Triassic of France (1)

Total: 26 collections including 28 occurrences

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