Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Parent taxon: Cancridae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019
See also Berglund and Goedert 1992, Berglund and Goedert 1996, Conkle et al. 2006, Dana 1851, Feldmann et al. 2006, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Anatolikos Anisospinos Cancer Ceronnectes Cyclocancer Glebocarcinus Metacarcinus Microdium Notocarcinus Platepistoma Romaleon Santeecarcinus Sarahcarcinus
Type: Cancer
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), Chile (1), Japan (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (2), United States (76: California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (2), United States (23: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California, Virginia)
• Neogene of Belgium (1), Poland (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Brazil (2), French Southern Territories (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (24), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (21: Alaska, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Hungary (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), United States (7: California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)
Total: 207 collections including 322 occurrences