Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Parent taxon: Achelata according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2015
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann and Bearlin 1988, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Hegna et al. 2020, Karasawa 1993, Rathbun 1926 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Cancrinidae, Palinura, Palinuroidea, Scyllaridae
Subtaxa: Archaeocarabus Archaeopalinurus Astacodes Eurycarpus Jasus Justitia Linuparus Palaeopalinurus Palinurellus Palinurina Palinurus Panulirus Parallelogastrus Phalangites 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)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Mexico (1), United States (6: Alabama, Illinois, Texas)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Australia (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Lebanon (2), Mexico (4), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (24: Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi), Uzbekistan (7)
• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of China (1), Italy (7), Slovenia (1)
Total: 102 collections including 112 occurrences