Avitelmessus
| Avitelmessus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Fossil of Avitelmessus grapsoideus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | †Dakoticancridae |
| Genus: | †Avitelmessus Rathbun, 1923 |
| Species: | †A. grapsoideus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Avitelmessus grapsoideus Rathbun, 1923
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Avitelmessus is an extinct genus of crab from the Late Cretaceous Peedee Formation and Ripley Formation of the United States. The type and only species is A. grapsoideus.