| Hoploparia Temporal range: [1]
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| Hoploparia longimana from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Nephropidae |
| Genus: | †Hoploparia M’Coy, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| Astacus longimanus Sowerby, 1826
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Hoploparia is a genus of fossil lobster belonging to the family Nephropidae. The type species of this genus is Hoploparia longimana.
These epifaunal carnivores lived from the Jurassic to the Paleogene period (from 201.6 to 28.4 Ma). Fossils of this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, Argentina, Madagascar, Canada, the United States, and Antarctica.[2] [1]
- ^ a b "The Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
- ^ Babcock, L. E.; Feldmann, R.M.; Grunow, A.M. (2024). "Cretaceous–Palaeogene lobsters, Hoploparia stokesi (Weller, 1903), from Antarctica: historical review, and transfer of specimens from the United States Polar Rock Repository". Polar Research. 43 (9866): 1–5. doi:10.33265/polar.v43.9866.