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Chasmocarcininae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	225772	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=225772

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Chasmocarcinidae : Chasmocarcininae

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	Goneplacoidea	MacLeay 1838
family	Chasmocarcinidae	Serene 1964
subfamily	Chasmocarcininae	Serene 1964

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chasmocarcininae	subfamily	belongs to Goneplacidae	stated without evidence	Feldmann and Wilson, 1988
Chasmocarcininae	subfamily	belongs to Chasmocarcinidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (7.1%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

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 A. Garassino, H. Karasawa, and G. Schweigert. 2010. Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species. Crustaceana Monographs 10:1-222

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chasmocarcinus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Collinsius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Falconoplax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	55.8 Ma Eocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Gillcarcinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Mioplax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orthakrolophos ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	47.8 Ma Eocene	5.33 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1964	Chasmocarcininae Serene
1988	Chasmocarcininae Feldmann and Wilson p. 484
2001	Chasmocarcininae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 338
2003	Chasmocarcininae Collins et al. p. 218
2003	Chasmocarcininae Karasawa and Kato p. 142
2004	Chasmocarcininae Schweitzer et al. p. 102
2004	Chasmocarcininae Schweitzer and Karasawa p. 73
2010	Chasmocarcininae Schweitzer et al.
2017	Chasmocarcininae Luque et al. p. 18

References

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

Feldmann R. M., Wilson M. T. (1988) Eocene decapod crustaceans from Antartica, Geological Society of America, Memoir 169, 465-488

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (2001) Differentiation of the fossil Hexapodidae Miers, 1886 (Decapoda: Brachyura) from similar forms, Journal of Paleontology 75 2, 330-345

Collins J. S. H., Lee C., et al (2003) Miocene and Pleistocene Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Sabah and Sarawak, Journal of Systematic Palaentology 1, 187-226

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2004) New Decapoda (Crustacea) from the middle and late Eocene of Pakistan and a revision of Lobonotus A. Milne Edwards, 1864, University of Michigan Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology 31 4, 89-118

Schweitzer C. E., Karasawa H. (2004) Revision of Amydrocarcinus and Palaeograpsus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) with definition of three new genera, Paleontological Research 8 1, 71-86

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

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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