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Paranecrocarcinus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4646608	https://www.gbif.org/species/4646608
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22623	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22623

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Necrocarcinidae : Paranecrocarcinus

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
-	Raninoida	de Haan 1839
superfamily	Raninoidea	de Haan 1839
family	Necrocarcinidae	Forster 1968
genus	Paranecrocarcinus	Van Straelen 1936

Scientific Name

Paranecrocarcinus Van Straelen, 1936

Name Published In

Van Straelen, V. 1936. Crustacés Décapodes nouveaux ou peu connus de l'époque Crétacique. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(45): 1-49.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paranecrocarcinus	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Paranecrocarcinus	genus	belongs to Necrocarcinidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010
Paranecrocarcinus	genus	belongs to Paranecrocarcininae	stated without evidence	van Bakel et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper 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)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Paranecrocarcinus digitatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Paranecrocarcinus foesteri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus graysonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paranecrocarcinus hexagonalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus kennedyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus libanoticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus milbournei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus moseleyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paranecrocarcinus mozambiquensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Paranecrocarcinus ovalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus pusillus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paranecrocarcinus vanbirgeleni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1936	Paranecrocarcinus Van Straelen
2002	Paranecrocarcinus Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Paranecrocarcinus Schweitzer et al. p. 32
2010	Paranecrocarcinus Schweitzer et al.
2012	Paranecrocarcinus Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 21
2012	Paranecrocarcinus van Bakel et al. p. 60

References

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

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

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

Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg., 12, no. 45 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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 (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

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

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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