Malacostraca - Decapoda - Blepharipodidae
Full reference: C. B. Boyko. 2002. A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 272:1-272
Parent taxon: Hippoidea according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Boyko 2002, Nyborg and Vega 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Albuneidae, Hippidae
Subtaxa: Blepharipoda Lophomastix
Type: Blepharipoda
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence