Family Nephropidae Dana 1852 (clawed lobster)

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 et al. 2010 and Verheyden 2002

Sister taxon: Boschettocheles

Subtaxa: Acanthacaris Cardirhynchus Dinochelus Eoacanthacaris Eunephrops Homarinus Homarus Hoploparia Jagtia Metahomarus Metanephrops Nephropides Nephropinae Nephrops Nephropsis Oncopareia Palaeohomarus Palaeonephrops Paraclythia Pseudohomarus Thaumastocheles Thaumastochelopsis Thymopides Thymops Thymopsis

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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)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Italy (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (19)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Poland (1), United States (5: Alabama, Illinois, North Dakota, Texas)

• Paleogene of Belgium (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (2: Alaska, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (18), Argentina (8), Australia (1), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), France (28), Germany (6), Japan (4), Lebanon (2), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Spain (3), Switzerland (8), the United Kingdom (5), United States (40: Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (2)

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 192 collections including 224 occurrences

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