Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Synonyms: Platyonichidae Dana 1851, Platyonychidae Dana 1851
Parent taxon: Portunoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Dana 1851, Feldmann et al. 2018 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Carcineretidae, Eogeryonidae, Geryonidae, Lithophylacidae, Longusorbiidae, Pleolobites, Portunidae, Psammocarcinidae, Rhachiosoma
Subtaxa: Carcininae Pirimelinae Platyonychus Polybiinae Thiinae
Type: Carcinus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), Morocco (1), Spain (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Fiji (2), Italy (4)
• Neogene of Poland (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (7), Brunei Darussalam (2), Chile (8), Hungary (8), Italy (1), Japan (2), Malta (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Japan (6), New Zealand (1), United States (20: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Colombia), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Italy (11), Japan (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (14: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), France (1)
• Cretaceous of Colombia (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 148 collections including 163 occurrences