Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Cancroidea according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019
Sister taxa: Atelecyclidae, Cancerides, Eriphidae, Telphusidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), Chile (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (2), United States (76: California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (3), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (2), United States (23: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California, Virginia)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Brazil (3), Denmark (2), French Southern Territories (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (24), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (21: Alaska, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington)
• Neogene of Belgium (1), Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Egypt (5), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Mexico (1), Pakistan (3), Panama (1), Spain (1), United States (7: California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)
Total: 230 collections including 349 occurrences