Biology:Eumorphocorystes
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Short description: Extinct genus of crabs
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| 5 cm Carinoranina naselensis carapace | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Raninidae |
| Subfamily: | Notopodinae |
| Genus: | †Eumorphocorystes Binkhorst, 1857 [1] |
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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.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joe S. Collins, René H. Fraaye & John W. M. Jagt (1995). "Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40 (2): 165–210. http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app40/app40-165.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q5409642 entry
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