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Graptocarcinus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4645016	https://www.gbif.org/species/4645016
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22460	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22460

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Dynomenidae : Graptocarcinus

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
superfamily	Dromioidea	De Haan 1833
family	Dynomenidae	Ortmann 1892
genus	Graptocarcinus	Roemer 1887

Scientific Name

Graptocarcinus Roemer, 1887

Name Published In

N. Jahrb. Min., 1887 (1), 173

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Graptocarcinus	genus	belongs to Dromiidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1926
Graptocarcinus	genus	belongs to Dynomenidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1935

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 23.0 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)

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Graptocarcinus bellonii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Graptocarcinus maastrichtensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Graptocarcinus muiri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Graptocarcinus texanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	145 Ma Late Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Graptocarcinus urbasaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Graptocarcinus Roemer
1926	Graptocarcinus Rathbun p. 88
1935	Graptocarcinus Rathbun p. 41
1944	Graptocarcinus Stenzel p. 550
2003	Graptocarcinus Schweitzer et al. p. 18
2010	Graptocarcinus Schweitzer et al.
2016	Graptocarcinus Beschin et al. p. 26
2017	Graptocarcinus Luque et al. p. 40

References

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

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

Rathbun M. J. (1935) Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Geological Society of America Special Paper 2, 1-160

Stenzel H. B. (1944) A new Cretaceous crab, Graptocarcinus muiri, from Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 18 6, 550-552

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2003) Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada, NRC Research Press, 1-66

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

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

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

N. Jahrb. Min., 1887 (1), 173 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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