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Tumidocarcinus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4648286	https://www.gbif.org/species/4648286
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22743	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22743

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Tumidocarcinidae : Tumidocarcinus

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
superfamily	Carpilioidea	Ortmann 1893
family	Tumidocarcinidae	Schweitzer 2005
genus	Tumidocarcinus	Glaessner 1960

Scientific Name

Tumidocarcinus Glaessner, 1960

Name Published In

Palaeont. Bull. Wellington 31

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tumidocarcinus	genus	belongs to Xanthidae	stated without evidence	Glaessner, 1960
Tumidocarcinus	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Tumidocarcinus	genus	belongs to Xanthidae	stated with evidence	Feldmann et al., 2003
Tumidocarcinus	genus	belongs to Tumidocarcinidae	stated with evidence	Schweitzer, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

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)

M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tumidocarcinus dentatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	27.3 Ma Oligocene	27.3 Ma Oligocene
Tumidocarcinus foersteri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Tumidocarcinus foesteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tumidocarcinus giganteus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Tumidocarcinus tumidus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	36.0 Ma Eocene	27.3 Ma Oligocene
Tumidocarcinus victoriensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1960	Tumidocarcinus Glaessner p. 24 figs. PI. 4, Fig. 1, 2; PI. 6, Fig. 5, 6; Text Fig. 10
1992	Tumidocarcinus Feldmann and Keys p. 10
2002	Tumidocarcinus Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Tumidocarcinus Feldmann et al. p. 152
2005	Tumidocarcinus Schweitzer p. 282

References

Glaessner M. F. (1960) The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31, 1-79

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

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

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. (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

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Sepkowski (2002) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Palaeont. Bull. Wellington 31 - 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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