Family Colossendeidae Jarzynsky 1870 (sea spider)

Pycnogonida - Pantopoda - Colossendeidae

Synonyms: Pasithoidae Sars 1891, Rhopalorhynchidae Fry 1978

Parent taxon: Pantopoda according to R. Sabroux et al. 2019

See also Dunlop et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Ammotheidae, Ascorhynchidae, Austrodecidae, Callipallenidae, Endeidae, Nymphonidae, Palaeopycnogonididae, Pallenopsidae, Phoxichilidiidae, Pycnogonidae, Rhynchothoracidae

Subtaxa: Colossendeinae

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (1 collection), Germany (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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