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Xanthoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63286	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63286

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Xanthoidea

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Brachyrhyncha	stated without evidence	Squires, 1980
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Feldmann and Keys, 1992
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Brachyura	stated without evidence	Tiwari et al., 1997
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Eubrachyura	stated without evidence	Vega et al., 2001
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Schweitzer and Feldmann, 2001
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated with evidence	Feldmann et al., 2003
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Schweitzer, 2003
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Brachyura	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2006
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Karasawa and Schweitzer, 2006
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Eubrachyura	stated with evidence	Ahyong et al., 2007
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Brachyura	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010
Xanthoidea	superfamily	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Luque et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

460

Extant Size (PBDB)

205 (45%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 101 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)

W. S. MacLeay. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith. In Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of Natural History chiefly collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr. Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa".

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Domeciidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Goneplacidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		66	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Menippidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Panopeidae genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		96	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pseudorhombilidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Tanaocheleidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Tetraliidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Trapeziidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Xanthidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Stone Crab	204	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Actaeites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Actaeopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Caprocancer ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Carpiliopsis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Colpocaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cretachlorodius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Creticarcinus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Eoplax ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Eoxanthias ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gwana genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Muelleroplax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paraxanthosia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pilumnomimus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pregeryona ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Prochlorodius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Syphax ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Syphaxiella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Thelecarcinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Thelphusograpsus genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Wanga ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Woodbinax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Xanthosioides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Xanthoidea MacLeay
1980	Xanthoidea Squires p. 473
1984	Xanthoidea Squires p. 55
1992	Xanthoidea Feldmann and Keys p. 10
1997	Xanthoidea Tiwari et al. p. 131
2001	Xanthoidea Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 331
2001	Xanthoidea Vega et al. p. 939
2002	Xanthoidea Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961
2003	Xanthoidea Feldmann et al. p. 152

Year	Name and Author
2003	Xanthoidea Schweitzer p. 1110
2004	Xanthoidea Schweitzer et al. p. 100
2004	Xanthoidea Schweitzer and Karasawa p. 73
2005	Xanthoidea Schweitzer p. 277
2006	Xanthoidea Karasawa and Schweitzer p. 46
2006	Xanthoidea Schweitzer et al. p. 24 figs. Table 1
2007	Xanthoidea Ahyong et al.
2010	Xanthoidea Schweitzer et al.
2017	Xanthoidea Luque et al. p. 13

References

MacLeay W. S. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith. In Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of Natural History chiefly collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr. Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa", 53-71

Squires R. L. (1980) A new species of brachyuran from the Paleocene of California, Journal of Paleontology 54 2, 472-476

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Feldmann R. M., Keys I. W. (1992) Systematic and stratigraphic review with catalogue and locality index of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod Crustacea of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Record 45, 1-73

Tiwari R. P., Barman G., et al (1997) Miocene crabs from Mizoram, India, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 42, 127-132

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

Vega F. J., Cosma T, et al (2001) New middle Eocene decapods (Crustacea) from Chiapas, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 75, 929-946

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

Feldmann R. M., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2003) Decapod crustaceans from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica: a model for preservation of decapods, Journal of the Geological Society, London 160, 151-160

Schweitzer C. E. (2003) Utility of Proxy Characters for Classification of Fossils: An Example from the Fossil Xanthoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), Journal of Paleontology 77 6, 1107-1128

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

Schweitzer C. E. (2005) The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838, Journal of Paleontology 79 2, 277-295

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 (2006) New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 33, 21-45

Ahyong S.T., Lai J.C.Y., et al (2007) Phylogenetics of the brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda): The status of Podotremata based on small subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45, 576-586 doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.022

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

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