Oncopareia Bosquet 1854 (clawed lobster)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae

Synonyms: Ischnodactylus Pelseneer 1886, Nymphaeops Schlüter 1862, Stenocheles Fritsch and Kafka 1887

Parent taxon: Nephropidae according to D. M. Tshudy et al. 2022

See also Feldmann et al. 2016, Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Tshudy and Sorhannus 2000

Sister taxa: Acanthacaris, Cardirhynchus, Dinochelus, Eoacanthacaris, Eunephrops, Homarinus, Homarus, Hoploparia, Jagtia, Metahomarus, Metanephrops, Nephropides, Nephropinae, Nephrops, Nephropsis, Palaeohomarus, Palaeonephrops, Paraclythia, Pseudohomarus, Thaumastocheles, Thaumastochelopsis, Thymopides, Thymops, Thymopsis

Subtaxa: Oncopareia bredai Oncopareia esocina Oncopareia klintebjergensis Oncopareia lunata Oncopareia numcki

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Denmark (1 collection), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Germany (2), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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