Dakoticancroidea

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

Dakoticancroidea Temporal range: Santonian–Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Section:	Dromiacea
Superfamily:	Dakoticancroidea Rathbun, 1917
Families
Dakoticancridae Ibericancridae

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. 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.
3. 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.