Lobocarcinus sismondai is an extinct species of marine crab in the family Cancridae.[2]
| Lobocarcinus sismondai Temporal range: Pliocene
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| Lobocarcinus sismondai at the Houston Museum of Natural Science | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Cancridae |
| Genus: | †Lobocarcinus |
| Species: | †L. sismondai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lobocarcinus sismondai (von Meyer, 1859)
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Part of a Pliocene-aged carapace was recovered, and is housed in the Yorkshire Museum. Another fossil specimen was recorded by Lipke Holthuis in 1949, based on fixed fingers and an isolated dactylus. That specimen was recovered from Miocene–Lower Pleistocene deposits in the Netherlands.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Joe S. H. Collins (2002). "A taxonomic review of British decapod Crustacea" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 29: 81–92.
- ^ "Paleobiology Database: Lobocarcinus sismondai". Paleodb.org. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
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