Avitelmessus

Avitelmessus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: †Dakoticancridae
Genus: †Avitelmessus
Rathbun, 1923[2]
Species:
†A. grapsoideus
Binomial name
†Avitelmessus grapsoideus
Rathbun, 1923

Avitelmessus grapsoideus is an extinct species of crab from the Late Cretaceous Peedee Formation and Ripley Formation of the United States.[2] The type species is A. grapsoideus.[3]

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Avitelmessus".
  2. ^ a b Rathbun, M. J. (1923). "Decapod Crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous of North Carolina." North Carolina Geological Survey, vol. 5., pp. 403-408.
  3. ^ Palmer, Douglas; et al. (2009). "Cretaceous". In Burnie, David (ed.). Prehistoric Life: the Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (first American ed.). New York, NY: DK Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-7566-5573-0.