Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
Full reference: B. W. M. van Bakel, D. Guinot, P. Artal, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata). Zootaxa 3215:1-216
Parent taxon: Palaeocorystidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Luque et al. 2017 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Aguadites, Alessandranina, Cenocorystes, Cretacoranina, Eucorystes, Ferroranina, Notopocorystes, Planocorystes, Ripleycorystes
Subtaxa: Joeranina broderipi Joeranina colombiana Joeranina gaspari Joeranina harveyi Joeranina japonica Joeranina kerri Joeranina paututensis Joeranina platys
Type: Corystes broderipii
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (6: British Columbia collections), Colombia (4), France (2), Japan (7), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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