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Eumorphocorystes
Extinct genus of crabs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eumorphocorystes is a genus of crab belonging to the Raninidae subfamily Notopodinae. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands. Rathbun referred specimens from the Oligocene Stepovak Formation of Alaska to this genus.[1]
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5 cm Carinoranina naselensis carapace | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Raninidae |
Subfamily: | Notopodinae |
Genus: | †Eumorphocorystes Binkhorst, 1857 [1] |
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