Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
Parent taxon: Penaeoidea according to S. De Grave et al. 2009
See also Garassino and Pasini 2002 and Poore and Ahyong 2004
Sister taxa: Aciculopoda, Aegeridae, Aristeidae, Benthesicymidae, Bylgia, Carinacaris, Carpopenaeidae, Cretapenaeus, Drobna, Dusa, Hakelocaris, Ifasya, Koelga, Libanocaris, Longichela, Macropenaeus, Microchela, Micropenaeus, Pseudobombur, Pseudodusa, Rauna, Rhodanicaris, Satyrocaris, Sicyoniidae, Sicyoniidae, Solenoceridae
Subtaxa: Albertoppelia Ambilobeia Antrimpos Bombur Funchalia Metapenaeopsis Metapenaeus Parapenaeus Penaeopsis Penaeus Trachypenaeus
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Triassic of Italy (6), Madagascar (1), Spain (1)
Total: 20 collections including 45 occurrences