Welcome to the “MBFossilcrabs” new website!

With the aim to share with all the fossil crustacean lovers my personal collection, a pictorial representation of several of the fossil crab samples I have is displayed. More than 1,600 photos of about 700 species of decapods, mainly brachyurans, out of more than 3,000 fossil brachyurans known so far, are depicted,

You will find the images arranged by superfamilies or infraorders and there by families and subfamilies in the LEFT COLUMN or IN THE TAB ABOVE. The systematic arrangement follows mainly the criteria of Ng et al. (2008), De Grave et al. (2009), and the latest volumes of Treatise. Specially important is Guinot, Tavares & Castro (2013) and Davie et al. (2015). Particularly relevant are the recent phylogenies proposed by Luque et al. (2024) from molecular analyses and fossil calibrations, and Pan et al. (2024) based on phylogenomics analyses using transcriptome data. The fossil decapod systematics are in constant revision, mainly in the latest decades, thus even if it is a hard work, I will try to have this website updated.

In order to make this website helpful, besides geographical and geological indications, you will find also some bibliographical references to each of the fossil crab species.

Of course, your comments and suggestions about the website contents will be appreciated.

Enjoy!