Malacostraca - Decapoda - Epialtidae
Parent taxon: Majoidea according to F. A. Ferratges et al. 2023
See also Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2020 and Wolfe et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Hymenosomidae, Inachidae, Inachoididae, Macrocheiridae, Majidae, Oregoniidae, Priscinachidae
Subtaxa: Epialtinae Periacanthinae Pisinae Pliosomatinae Taliepus Tychinae
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), United States (15: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virgin Islands, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Fiji (4), Jamaica (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Virginia)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Hungary (9), Japan (2), Malaysia (5), Malta (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Italy (9), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
Total: 72 collections including 96 occurrences