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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4644253	https://www.gbif.org/species/4644253
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22386	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22386

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Goneplacidae : Costacopluma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Retroplumidae : Costacopluma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
-	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	Latreille 1802
-	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
-	Heterotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Retroplumoidea	Gill 1894
family	Retroplumidae	Gill 1894
genus	Costacopluma	Collins & Morris 1975

Scientific Name

Costacopluma Collins & Morris, 1975

Name Published In

Palaeontology 18

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Costacopluma	genus	belongs to Retroplumidae	stated without evidence	Collins and Morris, 1975
Costacopluma	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Costacopluma	genus	belongs to Retroplumidae	stated without evidence	Armstrong et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 86 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. S. H. Collins and S. F. Morris. 1975. A new crab, Costacopluma concava from the Upper Cretaceous of Nigeria. Palaeontology 18(4):823-829

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Costacopluma australis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Costacopluma bifida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Costacopluma binodosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Costacopluma bishopi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Costacopluma concava ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Costacopluma grayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	47.8 Ma Eocene
Costacopluma maroccana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Costacopluma mexicana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Costacopluma nordestina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Costacopluma salamanca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Costacopluma senegalensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Costacopluma squiresi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	58.7 Ma Paleocene
Costacopluma texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Costacopluma Collins and Morris p. 823
1991	Costacopluma Muller and Collins p. 90
1995	Costacopluma Vega and Feldmann
2002	Costacopluma Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Costacopluma Armstrong et al. p. 756
2009	Costacopluma Nyborg et al. p. 205
2010	Costacopluma Hyzny and Muller p. 125
2017	Costacopluma Luque et al. p. 13

References

Collins J. S. H., Morris S. F. (1975) A new crab, Costacopluma concava from the Upper Cretaceous of Nigeria, Palaeontology 18 4, 823-829

Muller P., Collins J. S. H. (1991) Late Eocene Coral-Associated Decapods (Crustacea) From Hungary, Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 28 2-3, 47-92

Vega F. J., Feldmann R. M. (1995) Fossil Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous Cardenas Formation, East-Central Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 69 2, 340-350

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Schweitzer C. E., Salva E. W., et al (1999) Re-Evaluation of the Genus Xanthosia Bell, 1863 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)and Description of Two New Species from the Cretaceous of Texas, Journal of Paleontology 73 1, 77-89

Nyborg T., Vega F. J., et al (2009) First described species of Costacopluma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the Pacific slope, Paleocene of California, USA, Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 61 2, 203-209

Hyzny M., Muller P. M. (2010) Loerenthopluma Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 1996 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Retroplumidae) from the Oligocene of Hungary, Attic Soc. it. Sci. nat. Museo civ. Stor. nat. Milano 151 2, 123-134

Luque J., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2017) Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura, Nauplius 25, e2017025 doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2017025

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Palaeontology 18 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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