List of prehistoric malacostracans explained

This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were not formally published (nomina nuda), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered malacostracans.[1] The majority of the genera are from the order Decapoda, for which a recent synopsis allows invalid names to be excluded.[2]

Order Decapoda

Suborder Dendrobranchiata

Infraorder Stenopodidea

Infraorder Caridea

Infraorder Astacidea

Infraorder Glypheidea

Infraorder Thalassinidea

Infraorder Achelata

Infraorder Polychelida

Infraorder Anomura

Infraorder Brachyura

Order Aeschronectida

Order Amphipoda

Order Archaeostraca

Order Belotelsonidea

Order Cumacea

Order Eocaridacea

Order Hoplostraca

Order Hymenostraca

Order Isopoda

Order Leptostraca

Order Lophogastrida

Order Mysidacea

Order Palaeostomatopoda

Phyllocarida incertae sedis

Order Stomatopoda

Order Tanaidacea

Order Waterstonellidea

See also

Notes and References

  1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (MALACOSTRACA) . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . July 13, 2009.
  2. . 2009 . Suppl. 21 . 1–109 . A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans . Sammy De Grave . N. Dean Pentcheff . Shane T. Ahyong . . etal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf . 2011-06-06 .
  3. Jérôme Chablais, Rodney M. Feldmann & Carrie E. Schweitzer . 2011 . A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura . . 85 . 93–102 . 10.1007/s12542-010-0080-y . PDF.

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