Eumorphocorystes

Eumorphocorystes
Temporal range: Maastrichtian-Oligocene
~70–23 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Raninidae
Subfamily: Notopodinae
Genus: †Eumorphocorystes
Binkhorst, 1857 
Species
  • E. naselensis
  • E. sculptus

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.

References

  1. 1 2 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.