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Eurytium

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Description

Eurytium is a genus of crab in the family Panopeidae, containing the following species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurytium, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2227716	https://www.gbif.org/species/2227716
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22438	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22438

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Panopeidae : Eurytium

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Panopeidae : Eurytium

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
-	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	Latreille 1802
-	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
superfamily	Xanthoidea	MacLeay 1838
family	Panopeidae	Ortmann 1893
subfamily	Panopeinae	Ortmann 1893
genus	Eurytium	Stimpson 1859

Scientific Name

Eurytium Stimpson, 1859

Name Published In

Stimpson, William. 1859. Notes on North American Crustacea, No. 1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7: 49–93.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eurytium	genus	belongs to Xanthidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1918
Eurytium	genus	belongs to Panopeidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1930
Eurytium	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Eurytium	genus	belongs to Panopeinae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurytium

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eurytium abbreviata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eurytium affine species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eurytium albidigitum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eurytium crenulatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Eurytium granulosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Eurytium limosum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Eurytium tristani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Eurytium Stimpson
1918	Eurytium Rathbun p. 171
1930	Eurytium Rathbun
2002	Eurytium Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Eurytium Schweitzer et al.
2017	Eurytium Luque et al. p. 28

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Rathbun M. J. (1918) Decapod Crustaceans from the Panama Region, Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum, 123-184

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

Luque J., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2017) Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura, Nauplius 25, e2017025 doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2017025

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 85 Ninety-eight generic names in Crustacea placed in the Official List of Generic Names.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(3), 1 (1925) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Williams, Austin B., 1984: null. Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. xviii + 550. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Stimpson, W. (1859). Notes on North American Crustacea, no. 1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 7(11): 49-93, 1 pl. - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N. York, 7 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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