Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Parent taxon: Calappoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019
See also Ahyong et al. 2007, Collins et al. 2003, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann 1993, Feldmann et al. 1998, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Feldmann et al. 2019, Fraaye and Collins 1987, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Rumsey et al. 2016, Schweitzer 2003, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2007, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Tiwari et al. 1997, Todd and Collins 2005 and Vega et al. 2001
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acanthocarpus Bittnerilia Calappa Calappella Calappilia Calappinae Carinocalappa Corallomursia Corallomursinae Cryptosoma Cycloes Matutinae Mursia Mursilata Mursilia Mursiopsis Nantocyclois Necrocarcininae Paracorallomursia Paracyclois Pseudocorallomursia Pseudomicippella Stenodromia Tavernolesia Tutus
Type: Calappa
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Japan (5), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Fiji (1), Poland (1)
• Miocene of Anguilla (1), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Brunei Darussalam (2), Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (13), Hungary (10), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (13), Malaysia (5), Malta (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Panama (9), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), United States (9: Florida, Oregon, Puerto Rico), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (2), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Oman (1), United States (17: Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Hungary (1), Italy (18), Mexico (8), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (8: Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleogene of Mexico (2)
• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (2)
Total: 194 collections including 223 occurrences