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Xanthilites

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4648293	https://www.gbif.org/species/4648293
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22759	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22759

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Tumidocarcinidae : Xanthilites

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	Xanthilites	Bell 1858

Scientific Name

Xanthilites Bell, 1858

Name Published In

(Pal. Soc. Monogr.) Crust. Malacostr., 1, 17 (as Xantholites p. vi).

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Xanthilites	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Xanthilites	genus	belongs to Tumidocarcinidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 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)

T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Xanthilites alabamensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Xanthilites bowerbanki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xanthilites bowerbankii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Xanthilites gerthi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Xanthilites interpunctatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xanthilites interpunctus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Xanthilites pentagonalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Xanthilites rathbunae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Xanthilites traubi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Xanthilites verrucoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Xantholites Bell, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Tumidocarcinidae : *Xantholites*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1858	Xanthilites Bell p. 17
2002	Xanthilites Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Xanthilites Schweitzer p. 286
2006	Xanthilites Karasawa and Schweitzer
2018	Xanthilites Beschin et al. p. 186

References

Bell T. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay, Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10, 1-44

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

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

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. 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

(Pal. Soc. Monogr.) Crust. Malacostr., 1, 17 (as Xantholites p. vi). - 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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