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Portunites ✝

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Description

Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4644441	https://www.gbif.org/species/4644441
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22655	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22655

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Camptandriidae : Portunites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Macropipidae : Portunites

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
-	Heterotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Portunoidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Macropipidae	Stephenson and Campbell 1960
genus	Portunites	Bell 1858

Scientific Name

Portunites Bell, 1858

Name Published In

Monogr. Foss. Malacost. Crust. Brit., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Portunites	genus	belongs to Portunidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1926
Portunites	genus	belongs to Carcininae	stated without evidence	Quayle and Collins, 1981
Portunites	genus	belongs to Polybiinae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer and Feldmann, 2000
Portunites	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Portunites	genus	belongs to Polybiinae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer and Feldmann, 2002
Portunites	genus	belongs to Portunidae	stated without evidence	Karasawa and Schweitzer, 2006
Portunites	genus	belongs to Macropipidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

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)

T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Portunites alaskensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Portunites angustata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Portunites eocenica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Portunites hoepfneri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Portunites incerta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Portunites insculpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Portunites insculptus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Portunites kattachiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Portunites macrospinus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Portunites nodosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Portunites rosenfeldi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Portunites stintoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Portunites subovata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Portunites sylviae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Portunites triangulum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1858	Portunites Bell p. 20
1926	Portunites Rathbun p. 68
1960	Portunites Glaessner p. 21
1981	Portunites Quayle and Collins p. 747
1992	Portunites Karasawa p. 1252
1993	Portunites Karasawa p. 52
1999	Portunites Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 242

Year	Name and Author
2000	Portunites Schweitzer et al. p. 37
2002	Portunites Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961
2002	Portunites Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Portunites Karasawa and Schweitzer p. 61
2008	Portunites Karasawa et al. p. 100
2010	Portunites Schweitzer et al.

References

Bell T. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay, Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10, 1-44

Rathbun M. J. (1926) The Fossil Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope of North America, United States National Museum Bulletin 138, 1-155

Glaessner M. F. (1960) The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31, 1-79

Quayle W. J., Collins J. S. H. (1981) New Eocene Crabs from the Hampshire Basin, Palaeontology 24 4, 733-758

Karasawa H. (1992) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Manda Group (Middle Eocene), Kyushu, Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 167, 1247-1258

Karasawa H. (1993) Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 20, 1-92

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (1999) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Annals of Carnegie Museum 68 4, 215-273

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2000) Eocene decapod crustaceans from Pulali Point, Washington, Annals of the Carnegie Museum 69 1, 23-67

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (2002) New Eocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from Southern California, Journal of Crustacean Biology 22, 938-967

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

Karasawa H., Schweitzer C. E. (2006) A new classification of the Xanthoidea sensu lato (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) based on phylogenetic analysis and traditional systematics and evaluation of all fossil Xanthoidea sensu lato, Contributions to Zoology 75 1/2, 23-72

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

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

Sepkowski (2002) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Monogr. Foss. Malacost. Crust. Brit., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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