Superfamily Nephropoidea Dana 1852 (lobster)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Parent taxon: Homarida according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2016

See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Enoplometopoidea, Stenochiroidea, Trentastacus

Subtaxa: Boschettocheles Nephropidae

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Type: Nephrops

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), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Italy (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (19), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleogene of Belgium (1)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Poland (1), United States (5: Alabama, Illinois, North Dakota, Texas)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (25), Argentina (16), Australia (3), Canada (14: Alberta, British Columbia), Czechia (5), France (28), Germany (6), Japan (5), Lebanon (4), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Spain (5), Switzerland (8), the United Kingdom (6), United States (60: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (2)

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 250 collections including 295 occurrences

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