Dorippoidea

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Dorippoidea
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent
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Dorippoidea

Macleay, 1838
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Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs [1]. The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous [2].

References

  1. ^ Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp.
  2. ^ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287.