Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
Parent taxon: Nephropoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann 1974, Feldmann and Holland 1971, Feldmann and Keys 1992 and Karasawa 2000
Sister taxa: Boschettocheles, Stenochiridae, Thaumastochelidae
Subtaxa: Acanthacaris Cardirhynchus Dinochelus Eoacanthacaris Eunephrops Homarinae Homarinus Homarus Hoploparia Jagtia Metanephrops Nephropides Nephropinae Nephrops Nephropsis Oncopareia Palaeonephrops Paraclythia Pseudohomarus Thaumastocheles Thaumastochelopsis Thymopides Thymops Thymopsis Wongastacia
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: New Brunswick collection), Italy (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Connecticut)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Italy (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (19)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Poland (1), United States (5: Alabama, Illinois, North Dakota, Texas)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (18), Argentina (8), Australia (1), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), France (5), Germany (6), Japan (4), Lebanon (2), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (40: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas), Uzbekistan (2)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 163 collections including 190 occurrences