Calappilia
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| Genus: | Calappilia Milne-Edwards 1873
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Calappilia is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Calappilia verrucosa.[1]
Fossils of crabs within this genus have been found in Italy, United States, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil from Paleogene to Miocene (age range: 55.8 to 15.97 Ma).[1]
Species
[edit]Species within this genus include:[1]
- Calappilia bohmi Glaessner 1929
- Calappilia bonairensis Van Straelen 1933
- Calappilia borneoensis Van Straelen 1924
- Calappilia brooksi Ross & Scolaro 1964
- Calappilia calculosa Rumsey, Klompmaker & Portell 2016[2]
- Calappilia chilensis Feldmann et al. 2005
- Calappilia circularis Beurlen 1958
- Calappilia dacica Bittner 1893
- Calappilia diglypta Stenzel 1934
- Calappilia gemmata Beschin 1994
- Calappilia gorodiskii Remy 1959
- Calappilia hondoensis Rathbun 1930
- Calappilia incisa Bittner 1886
- Calappilia mainii Allasinaz 1987 (reassigned by some authors to Stenodromia)[3]
- Calappilia matzkei Bachmayer 1962
- Calappilia maxwelli Feldmann 1993
- Calappilia ocalanus Ross 1964
- Calappilia perlata Noetling 1885
- Calappilia scopuli Quayle and Collins 1981
- Calappilia sexdentata Milne-Edwards 1876
- Calappilia sitzi Blow & Manning 1996
- Calappilia subovata Beschin 2002
- Calappilia tridentata Beurlen 1939
- Calappilia verrucosa Milne-Edwards 1873
- Calappilia vicetina Fabiani 1910
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of Calappilia have been found in:[1]
- Paleogene
- Bateque, San Juan and Tepetate Formations, Mexico
- Cava Main di Arzignano, Italy
- Vincentown Formation, New Jersey
- Castle Hayne Limestone, North Carolina
- Stone City Formation, Texas
- Barton Beds, United Kingdom
- Miocene
References
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- ^ a b c d Calappilia at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Benjamin T. Rumsey; Adiël A. Klompmaker; Roger W. Portell (2016). "Paleobiogeography of the fossil box crab Calappilia (Brachyura: Calappidae) with a new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of Florida, USA". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36 (3): 329–337. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002422.
- ^ A. Busulini, C. Beschin & G. Tessie (2014) A re-evaluation of extinct European crabs referred to the genus Calappilia A. Milne Edwards in Bouillé, 1873 (Brachyura, Calappidae)
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Categories:
- Calappoidea
- Paleogene genus first appearances
- Miocene genus extinctions
- Eocene animals of Europe
- Fossils of Italy
- Fossils of Great Britain
- Paleogene animals of North America
- Fossils of Mexico
- Fossils of New Jersey
- Fossils of North Carolina
- Miocene animals of South America
- Neogene Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Neogene Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 1873
- Taxa named by Alphonse Milne-Edwards
- Brachyura stubs