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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Podotremata
Superfamilia: †Dakoticancroidea
Familiae: Dakoticancridae - Ibericancridae

[list of familiae after Artal et al. (2008)]
Name

Dakoticancroidea Rathbun, 1917
References

Artal, P.; Guinot, D.; Bakel, B. van; Castillo, J. 2008: Ibericancridae, a new dakoticancroid family (Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Spain. Zootaxa, 1907: 1–27. Abstract & excerpt

Dakoticancroidea is a superfamily of fossil crabs, containing six species in five genera, divided into two families.[1] The family Dakoticancridae is only known from North American rocks of Late Cretaceous age,[2] while the single species in the Ibericancridae was found in Spain.[3]

Dakoticancridae Rathbun, 1917

Avitelmessus grapsoideus Rathbun, 1923
Dakoticancer australis Rathbun, 1926
Dakoticancer overana Rathbun, 1917
Seorsus wadei Bishop, 1988
Tetracarcinus subquadrata Weller, 1905

Ibericancridae Artal, Guinot, Van Bakel & Castillo, 2008

Ibericancer sanchoi Artal, Guinot, Van Bakel & Castillo, 2008

References

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.
G. A. Bishop; R. M. Feldmann & F. Vega (1998). "The Dakoticancridae (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Mexico". Contributions to Zoology. 67 (4): 237–256. doi:10.1163/18759866-06704002.
Pedro Artal; Danièle Guinot; Barry van Bakel & Juan Castillo (2008). "Ibericancridae, a new dakoticancroid family (Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Spain" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1907: 1–27. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1907.1.1.

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