Corazzatocarcinus

Corazzatocarcinus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Corazzatocarcinus hadjoulae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: †Necrocarcinidae
Genus: †Corazzatocarcinus
Larghi, 2004

Corazzatocarcinus is an extinct genus of Cretaceous crabs. This genus include the species Corazzatocarcinus hadjoulae Roger 1946.

Fossil record

Corazzatocarcinus is known in Cretaceous of Lebanon (from about 99.7 to 94.3 million years ago).

References

  1. ↑ Guinot & Davie, 2008 : Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, n. 17 p. 1–286
  2. ↑ De Grave & al., 2009 : A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, n. 21, p. 1-109
  3. 1 2 Cristiano Larghi Brachyuran decapod Crustacea from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon