Malacostraca - Decapoda - Diogenidae
Parent taxon: Paguroidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Martin and Davis 2001, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2005, Todd and Collins 2005, Vega et al. 2001 and Vega et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Ammopylocheles, Annuntidiogenidae, Calcinidae, Coenobitidae, Eopaguropsis, Eotylaspis, Jurapylocheles, Orhomalus, Paguridae, Parapaguridae, Parapylochelidae, Probeebeidae, Pylochelidae, Schobertellidae, Xylopaguridae
Subtaxa: Annuntidiogenes Calcinus Cancellus Ciliopagurus Clibanarius Diogenes Longipaguristes Parapaguristes Parapetrochirus Petrochirus Striadiogenes Strigopagurus
Type: Diogenes
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Jamaica (3), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (4: Florida, Pennslyvania, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (4), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1)
• Neogene of Italy (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), the Dominican Republic (8), Hungary (5), Mexico (3), Panama (3), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (2: Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Hungary (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), Italy (15), Mexico (2), Pakistan (2), Spain (5)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1), Mexico (1)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (2), United States (2: Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 81 collections including 93 occurrences