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Necrocarcinus

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae

Taxonomy

Necrocarcinus was named by Bell (1863) [Sepkoski's age data: ]. Its type is Orithyia labeschii. It is the type genus of Necrocarcinidae, Necrocarcinoidea.

It was assigned to Necrocarcininae by Feldmann et al. (1976); to Calappidae by Rathbun (1926), Rathbun (1935), Feldmann et al. (1993); to Decapoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Necrocarcinidae by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000), Schweitzer and Feldmann (2002), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Karasawa et al. (2014), Karasawa et al. (2014), Schweitzer et al. (2016), Schweitzer et al. (2018).

Species

N. bodrakensis, N. gorbenkoi, N. hodgesi, N. inornatus, N. labeschii, N. mariae, N. minutus, N. oklahomensis, N. pawpawensis, N. pierrensis, N. rathbunae, N. senonensis, N. sibiricus, N. tauricus, N. undecimtuberculatus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1863	Necrocarcinus Bell p. 19
1926	Necrocarcinus Rathbun p. 84
1935	Necrocarcinus Rathbun p. 43
1976	Necrocarcinus Feldmann et al. p. 985
1993	Necrocarcinus Feldmann et al. p. 35
2000	Necrocarcinus Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 242
2002	Necrocarcinus Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961
2002	Necrocarcinus Sepkoski
2010	Necrocarcinus Schweitzer et al. p. 80
2014	Necrocarcinus Karasawa et al. p. 234
2016	Necrocarcinus Schweitzer et al. p. 349
2018	Necrocarcinus Schweitzer et al. p. 7

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Multicrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
class	Malacostraca	()

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eumalacostraca	Grobben 1892
—	Caridoida	Hessler 1982
order	Decapoda
suborder	Pleocyemata	Burkenroad 1963
—	Reptantia	(Boas)
—	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	()
—	Podotremata	Guinot 1977
—	Raninoidia	(de Haan 1839)
superfamily	Necrocarcinoidea	Förster 1968
family	Necrocarcinidae	Forster 1968
genus	Necrocarcinus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Necrocarcinus Bell 1863

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†Necrocarcinus bodrakensis Levitski 1974

†Necrocarcinus gorbenkoi Mychko et al. 2023

†Necrocarcinus hodgesi Bishop 1983

†Necrocarcinus inornatus Breton and Collins 2010

†Necrocarcinus labeschii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1835

†Necrocarcinus mariae Ósso et al. 2023

†Necrocarcinus minutus Milne-Edwards 1886

†Necrocarcinus oklahomensis Rathbun 1935

†Necrocarcinus pawpawensis Rathbun 1935

†Necrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun 1917

†Necrocarcinus rathbunae Roberts 1962

†Necrocarcinus senonensis Schlüter 1868

†Necrocarcinus sibiricus Kočová Veselská et al. 2024

†Necrocarcinus tauricus Ilyin and Alekseev 1998

†Necrocarcinus undecimtuberculatus Takeda and Fujiyama 1983

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

semi-infaunaluc

Diet:

detritivoref

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2022-08-23 13:44:12

Modified:

2022-08-23 13:44:12

Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade

References: Fearon and Clapham 2023, Turnsek 1997, Valdez and Clapham 2023, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Aptian to the top of the Danian or 121.40000 to 61.66000 Ma

Collections (33 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Aptian	121.4 - 119.57	Spain	N. mariae (235335)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Spain	N. mariae (236856)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Japan (Iwata)	N. undecintuberculatus (146565)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	USA (Texas)	Prehepatus pawpawensis (141171)
Early/Lower Albian	113.2 - 110.1	USA (Texas)	Prehepatus hodgesi (235833 235834)
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	USA (Texas)	N. sp. (141174)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France (Calvados)	N. labeschei (234000)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France (Seine-Maritime)	N. labeschei (234086)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France (Normandy)	N. labeschei (139714)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Russian Federation	N. gorbenkoi (232451)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France (Sarthe)	N. minutus, N. labeschii (234565)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France	N. labeschii (85020)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk Krai)	N. sibiricus (232833 239052)
Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France	N. minutus (97634)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	USA (Montana)	N. divisi (235352)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Czechia	N. sp. (90516 90518)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk Krai)	N. sibiricus (239053)
Middle Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk Krai)	N. sibiricus (239054)
Late/Upper Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	USA (Montana)	N. sp. (89500)
Middle Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk Krai)	N. sibiricus (232832)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Delaware)	N. rathbunae (125956 164900)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (South Dakota)	N. pierrensis (142414)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Delaware)	N. rathbunae (235827)
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (New Jersey)	N. pierrensis (141940)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Germany	N. senonensis (221724)
Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (South Dakota)	N. sp. (235333)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	USA (Mississippi)	N. oklahomensis (142007)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (South Dakota)	N. pierrensis (235362)
Danian	66.0 - 61.66	Poland	N. senonensis (133108)