Dakoticancroidea Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Section: | Dromiacea |
Superfamily: | †
Dakoticancroidea Rathbun, 1917 |
Families | |
Dakoticancridae |
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]