Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Parent taxon: Raninoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Feldmann et al. 2019, Karasawa et al. 2014, Luque et al. 2017 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxon: Raninidae
Subtaxa: Bicornisranininae Delyrius Doraranina Lyreidina Lyreidinae Macroacaeninae Marylyreidinae
Type: Lyreidus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (3 collections), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Anguilla (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), United States (4: Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (26), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), New Zealand (5), Spain (1), United States (23: Oregon, Washington)
• Paleogene of Mexico (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), France (1), United States (4: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (1), Greenland (6), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), United States (16: Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, mississippi)
Total: 108 collections including 110 occurrences