Extinct genus of crabs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harpactocarcinus is an extinct genus of mud crabs.
| Harpactocarcinus Temporal range: Cretaceous to Miocene, | |
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| Harpactocarcinus punctulatus at the Houston Museum of Natural Science | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Carpilioidea |
| Family: | †Zanthopsidae |
| Genus: | †Harpactocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862 |
This genus is known in the fossil record from the end of the Cretaceous to the Miocene. Fossils within this genus have been found in Iran, Europe, Turkey, Mexico, United States and New Zealand.[1]
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