Eumorphocorystes
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| 5 cm Carinoranina naselensis carapace | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Raninidae |
| Subfamily: | Notopodinae |
| Genus: | †Eumorphocorystes Binkhorst, 1857 [1] |
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Eumorphocorystes is a genus of crab belonging to the Raninidae subfamily Notopodinae. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands. Rathbun referred specimens from the Oligocene Stepovak Formation of Alaska to this genus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Joe S. Collins, René H. Fraaye & John W. M. Jagt (1995). "Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 40 (2): 165–210.
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Categories:
- Crabs
- Prehistoric Malacostraca
- Prehistoric crustacean genera
- Late Cretaceous crustaceans
- Eocene crustaceans
- Oligocene crustaceans
- Maastrichtian genus first appearances
- Oligocene genus extinctions
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Fossils of Alaska
- Fossil taxa described in 1857
- Paleocene crustaceans
- Oligocene Alaska
- Cretaceous Netherlands
- Late Cretaceous arthropods of Europe
- Oligocene arthropods of North America
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