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Dorippoidea

Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs. The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous.

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Dorippoidea
Temporal range:
Paradorippe granulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Dorippoidea
Macleay, 1838
Families

Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs.1 The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous.2

Dorippoidea contains the following families:34

  • Dorippidae Macleay, 1838
  • Ethusidae Guinot, 1977
  • Goniochelidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2011
  • Telamonocarcinidae Larghi, 2004
  • Tepexicarcinidae (?) Luque, 2015
References

References

  1. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. Bibcode:2008Crust..81..271B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.652.1701. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
  3. "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.
  4. "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". Marine Species Traits. 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.