Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
Synonyms: Homaridae Huxley 1879, Homarinae Huxley 1879, Thaumastochelidae Bate 1888
Parent taxon: Nephropoidea according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2016
See also Feldmann 1974, Feldmann et al. 1995, Feldmann and Holland 1971, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Karasawa 2000, Rathbun 1918, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2024 and Verheyden 2002
Sister taxon: Boschettocheles
Subtaxa: Acanthacaris Cardirhynchus Dinochelus Eunephrops Homarinus Homarus Hoploparia Jagtia Metahomarus Metanephrops Nephropides Nephropinae Nephrops Nephropsis Notahomarus Oncopareia Palaeohomarus Palaeonephrops Paraclythia Pseudohomarus Thaumastocheles Thaumastochelopsis Thymopides Thymops Thymopsis
Type: Nephrops
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: New Brunswick collection), Italy (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Connecticut)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Italy (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (19), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Poland (1), United States (5: Alabama, Illinois, North Dakota, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (23), Argentina (10), Australia (1), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia), France (28), Germany (6), Japan (5), Lebanon (4), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Spain (5), Switzerland (8), the United Kingdom (5), United States (54: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (2)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 220 collections including 261 occurrences