Dorippoidea

Dorippoidea
Temporal range:
Paradorippe granulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Dorippoidea
Macleay, 1838
Families

Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs. The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous.

Dorippoidea contains the following families:

  • Dorippidae Macleay, 1838
  • Ethusidae Guinot, 1977
  • Goniochelidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2011
  • Telamonocarcinidae Larghi, 2004
  • Tepexicarcinidae (?) Luque, 2015