List of prehistoric malacostracans

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List of prehistoric malacostracans

This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered malacostracans.[1] The majority of the genera are from the order Decapoda, for which a recent synopsis allows invalid names to be excluded.[2]

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Branchioplax (Decapoda: Brachyura)

Order Decapoda

Suborder Dendrobranchiata

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Aeger elegans (Aegeridae)

Infraorder Stenopodidea

Infraorder Caridea

Infraorder Astacidea

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Palaeonephrops browni (Bearpaw Shale, Cretaceous)

Infraorder Glypheidea

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Eryma mandelslohi (Jurassic)
  • Cedrillosia
  • Chimaerastacus
  • Clytiella
  • Clytiopsis
  • Enoploclytia
  • Eryma
  • Galicia
  • Glaessnericaris
  • Glyphea
  • Huhatanka
  • Jabaloya
  • Lissocardia
  • Litogaster
  • Mecochirus
  • Meyeria
  • Palaeastacus
  • Paraclytiopsis
  • Paralitogaster
  • Pemphix
  • Platychela
  • Platypleon
  • Praeatya
  • Protoclytiopsis
  • Pseudoglyphea
  • Pseudopemphix
  • Pustulina
  • Selenisca
  • Sinopemphix
  • Squamosoglyphea
  • Stenodactylina
  • Trachysoma

Infraorder Thalassinidea

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Thalassinoides, an ichnofossil produced by a thalassinidean (Israel, Middle Jurassic)

Infraorder Achelata

Infraorder Polychelida

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Eryon arctiformis (Solnhofen Limestone, Tithonian)
  • Antarcticheles
  • Coleia
  • Cycleryon
  • Eryon
  • Hasaracancer
  • Hellerocaris
  • Knebelia
  • Palaeopentacheles
  • Proeryon
  • Pseudocoleia
  • Rosenfeldia
  • Tetrachela
  • Tropifer
  • Willemoesiocaris

Infraorder Anomura

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Claws of an Eocene hermit crab of the genus Dardanus

Infraorder Brachyura

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Harpactocarcinus (Eocene)
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Megokkos alaskensis (Late Eocene)
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Pulalius (Oligocene)

Order Aeschronectida

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†Aenigmacaris cornigerum SCHRAM & HORNER 1979 from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana

Order Amphipoda

Order Angustidontida

Order Archaeostraca

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Nahecaris stuertzi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
  • Aristozoe
  • Baituganocaris
  • Callizoe
  • Caryocaris
  • Ceratiocaris
  • Dilophaspis
  • Dithyrocaris
  • Echinocaris
  • Eleutherocaris
  • Elymocaris
  • Gonatocaris
  • Guerichicaris
  • Hebertocaris
  • Heroldina
  • Kerfornecaris
  • Lebesconteia
  • Macrocaris
  • Montecaris
  • Nahecaris
  • Ohiocaris
  • Orozoe
  • Pephricaris
  • Ptychocaris
  • Pygocaris
  • Rhinocaris
  • Schugurocaris
  • Trigonocarys
  • Tropidocaris

Order Belotelsonidea

Order Cumacea

Order Eocaridacea

  • Anthracophausia
  • Devonocaris
  • Eocaris
  • Essoidea
  • Palaemysis

Order Hoplostraca

Order Hymenostraca

Order Isopoda

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Isopod inclusion in Baltic amber (Eocene)
  • Anhelkocephalon
  • Archaeoniscus
  • Archaeosphaeroma
  • Cirolana
  • Cyclosphaeroma
  • Cymatoga
  • Cymodoce
  • Elioserolis
  • Eocopea
  • Eosphaeroma
  • Hesslerella
  • Heterosphaeroma
  • Isopodites
  • Palaega
  • Palaeocrangon
  • Palaeophreatoicus
  • Proidotea
  • Protamphisopus
  • Protosphaeroma
  • Saduria
  • Sphaeroma
  • Triassphaeroma
  • Unusuropode
  • Urda

Order Leptostraca

Order Lophogastrida

Order Mysidacea

Order Palaeostomatopoda

Phyllocarida incertae sedis

  • Aptychopsis
  • Discinocaris
  • Peltocaris
  • Protocimex

Order Stomatopoda

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Tyrannophontes acanthocercus from the Mississippian Heath Formation of Bear Gulch, Montana

Order Tanaidacea

Order Waterstonellidea

See also

References

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