Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
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 (3), 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 (1), Mexico (2), United States (23: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California, Virginia)
• Neogene of Belgium (1), Poland (1)
• 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)
• 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)
• Cretaceous of Czechia (2)
Total: 232 collections including 351 occurrences