Corystidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Corystoidea. It includes what was once thought to be the oldest Eubrachyuran fossil, Hebertides jurassica, thought to be dating from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic);[1] the species was subsequently reinterpreted as being Cenozoic in age.[2] Corystidae contains ten extant and five extinct species in eight genera:[3]
- Corystes Bosc, 1802
- Corystites Lőrenthey, in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929
- Gomeza Gray, 1831
- Gomezinus † Collins, Lee & Noad, 2003
- Harenacorystes † Van Bakel, Jagt, Artal & Fraaije, 2009
- Hebertides † Guinot, De Angeli & Garassino, 2007
- Jonas Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846
- Micromithrax † Noetling, 1881
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| Corystes cassivelaunus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Corystoidea Samouelle, 1819 |
| Family: | Corystidae Samouelle, 1819 |
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References
edit- ^ Danièle Guinot; Antonio de Angeli; Alessandro Garassino (2007). "Hebertides jurassica n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Normandy (France)". Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del museo civico di storia naturale di Milano. 148 (2): 241–260.
- ^ Paul D. Taylor; G. Breton; Danièle Guinot; Antonio de Angeli; Alessandro Garassino (2012). "The Cenozoic age of the supposed Jurassic crab Hebertides jurassica Guinot, De Angeli & Gerassino, 2007 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. 153 (1): 71–83. doi:10.4081/nhs.2012.71.
- ^ 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.
External links
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