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Harpactocarcinus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Malacostraca

Family
  
Zanthopsidae

Order
  
Decapoda

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Infraorder
  
Brachyura

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

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Genus
  
Harpactocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862

Similar
  
Decapoda, Coeloma, Palaeocarpilius, Archaeogeryon, Branchioplax

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Harpactocarcinus is an extinct genus of mud crabs.

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Fossil record

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous to the Miocene (age range: from 66.043 to 11.608 million years ago.). Fossil within this genus have been found in Iran, Europe, Turkey, Mexico, United States and New Zealand.

Species

  • Harpactocarcinus almerae Via 1941
  • Harpactocarcinus americanus Rathbun 1928
  • Harpactocarcinus dalmatius Schweitzer et al. 2007
  • Harpactocarcinus fedrigoi Attilio Fedrigo
  • Harpactocarcinus istriensis Bachmayer and Nosan 1959
  • Harpactocarcinus jacquoti Milne-Edwards 1865
  • Harpactocarcinus macrodactylus Milne-Edwards 1850
  • Harpactocarcinus miocenicus Vega et al. 2010
  • Harpactocarcinus multidentatus Stubblefield 1946
  • Harpactocarcinus ovalis Milne-Edwards 1862
  • Harpactocarcinus punctulatus Milne-Edwards 1862
  • Harpactocarcinus rotundatus Milne-Edwards 1862
  • Harpactocarcinus wilkeningi Bachmayer and Mundlos 1968
  • Harpactocarcinus yozgatensis Schweitzer et al. 2007

    • References

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