Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Parent taxon: Achelata according to C.E. Schweitzer and R.M. Feldmann 2024
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann and Bearlin 1988, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Hegna et al. 2020, Karasawa 1993, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Cancrinidae, Lessinoachela, Palinura, Palinuroidea, Polzicaris, Scyllaridae
Subtaxa: Archaeocarabus Archaeopalinurus Eolinurus Eurycarpus Jasus Justitia Linuparus Palaeopalinurellus Palaeopalinurus Palinurina Palinurus Panulirus Parallelogastrus Phalangites Phyllamphion Projasus Puerulus Rugafarius Yunnanopalinura
Type: Palinurus
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Fiji (2 collections)
• Miocene of Japan (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Eocene of Italy (5), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: California)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Mexico (1), United States (6: Alabama, Illinois, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Australia (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), France (2), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), Lebanon (3), Mexico (4), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (34: Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (7)
• Jurassic of Czechia (1), Germany (4), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of China (1), Italy (7), Slovenia (1)
Total: 122 collections including 138 occurrences