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Palaeocorystidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8653873	https://www.gbif.org/species/8653873
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	211573	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=211573

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Palaeocorystidae

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
-	Thoracotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Palaeocorystoidea	L?renthey 1929
family	Palaeocorystidae	Lorenthey and Beurlen 1929

Scientific Name

Palaeocorystidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeocorystidae	subfamily	belongs to Raninidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2009
Palaeocorystidae	family	belongs to Palaeocorystoidea	stated without evidence	van Bakel et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

283

Extant Size (PBDB)

41 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

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)

C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and J. Fam, W. A. Hessin, S. W. Hetrick, T. G. Nyborg, and R. L. M. Ross. 2003. Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. In P.B. Cavers (ed.), NRC Research Press

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lyreidinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	49	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Notopodinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	37	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ranininae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	72	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Raninoidinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	68	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Alessandranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cretacoranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ferroranina ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Heus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Joeranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Notopocorystes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	30	145 Ma Late Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sabahranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1929	Palaeocorystidae Lorenthey and Beurlen
1998	Palaeocorystinae Tucker p. 330
2009	Palaeocorystinae Schweitzer et al. p. 418
2010	Palaeocorystinae Schweitzer et al.
2012	Palaeocorystidae van Bakel et al. p. q6
2014	Palaeocorystidae Karasawa et al. p. 239
2016	Palaeocorystidae Fran?escu et al. p. 1125
2017	Palaeocorystidae Luque et al. p. 19

References

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 (2009) New Cretaceous and Eocene decapoda (Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from British Columbia, Canada, Annals of Carnegie Museum 77 4, 403-423

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

van Bakel B. W. M., Guinot D., et al (2012) A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata), Zootaxa 3215, 1-216

Karasawa H., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2014) Phylongeny and Classification of Raninoida (Decapoda: Brachyura), Journal of Crustacean Biology 34 2, 216-272

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

Schweitzer et al., 2010 - 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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