Malacostraca - Decapoda - Paranecrocarcinidae
Alternative spelling: Paranecrocarcininae
Full reference: R. H. B. Fraaije, B. W. M. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt and P. Artal. 2008. New decapod crustaceans (Anomura, Brachyura) from mid-Cretaceous reefal deposits at Monte Orobe (Navarra, northern Spain), and comments on related type-Maastrichtian material. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre 78:193-208
Parent taxon: Necrocarcinoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Fraaije et al. 2008, Schweitzer et al. 2018, Schweitzer et al. 2016 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Araripecarcinus, Camarocarcinidae, Cenomanocarcinidae, Necrocarcinidae, Orithopsidae
Subtaxa: Paranecrocarcinus Protonecrocarcinus Pseudonecrocarcinus Thelecarcinus
Type: Paranecrocarcinus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (3 collections), Germany (1), Lebanon (2), Mozambique (2), the Netherlands (3), Nigeria (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Delaware, Montana, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 20 collections including 23 occurrences