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)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Poland (1), United States (5: Alabama, Illinois, North Dakota, Texas)

• Paleogene of Belgium (1)

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

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (23), Argentina (16), Australia (1), Canada (13: Alberta, British Columbia), France (28), Germany (6), Japan (5), Lebanon (4), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Spain (5), Switzerland (8), the United Kingdom (5), United States (53: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (2)

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 231 collections including 272 occurrences

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