Parent taxon: Heterotremata according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Lima et al. 2024 and Luque et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Aethroidea, Archaeochiapasidae, Bellioidea, Bythograeoidea, Calappoidea, Cancroidea, Carpilioidea, Cheiragonoidea, Componocancroidea, Corystoidea, Dairoidea, Dorippoidea, Eriphioidea, Gecarcinucoidea, Goneplacoidea, Hexapodoidea, Hymenosomatoidea, Leucosioidea, Leucosoidea, Maioidea, Majoidea, Marocarcinidae, Montezumelloidea, Orithyioidea, Parthenopoidea, Pilumnoidoidea, Portunoidea, Potamoidea, Progeryonoidea, Pseudothelphusoidea, Retroplumoidea, Trichodactyloidea, Trichopeltarioidea, Xanthoidea
Subtaxa: Galenidae Pilumnidae Tanaochelidae
Type: Pilumnus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Brunei Darussalam (1), Fiji (1), Jamaica (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), United States (3: Florida, Virgin Islands)
• Pliocene of Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Panama (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (4), Chile (5), the Dominican Republic (2), Hungary (13), Italy (1), Japan (10), Malaysia (3), Malta (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2)
• Eocene of Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (16), Mexico (1), Spain (3), United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 101 collections including 151 occurrences