Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer. 2005. The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838. Journal of Paleontology 79(2):277-295
Parent taxon: Carpilioidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer 2005, Schweitzer et al. 2007 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Arabicarcinidae, Carpiliidae, Palaeoxanthopsidae, Zanthopsidae
Subtaxa: Agostella Baricarcinus Cyclocorystes Dynomenopsis Lobonotus Nitotacarcinus Paratumidocarcinus Paronacarcinus Pulalius Styracocarcinus Titanocarcinus Tumidocarcinus Xanthilites
Type: Tumidocarcinus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), the Dominican Republic (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (8), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Mexico (4), Pakistan (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (9: California, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Austria (3), France (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), United States (4: Alabama, California)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (5), Austria (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 73 collections including 80 occurrences