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PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS, V. 8, 2002TABLE 1—Geographic and temporal ranges and feeding preferences of crustacean predators.TaxonGeologic RangeGeographic rangeand depth range(shallow, < 70 m;deep, > 70 m)Specialist feeders on specific Geologic range of durophagousinvertebrate prey? anatomical features (molariformclaws, mouth parts, etc.)Infraorder BrachyuraFamily PortunoideaCarcininaePortuninaeCretaceous(Maastrichtian)–RecentBoreal to temperate Generalists(bivalves, like oysters and mussels;scavengers; fish, plants, benthicinvertebtrates, jellyfish, epibionts onZostera, tunicates)UnknownFamily XanthidaeCretaceous–Recent(Schram, 1986)Temperate to tropical Generalists(mangrove detritus, other plants anddetritus, small crustaceans, oysters,barnacles; M. mercenaria eats molluscs,like oysters, polychaetes, barnacles andother crustaceans)Menippe mercenaria is the mostfamous shell-crusher of this group; thegenus Menippe originated in the Middleto Upper Eocene (Glaessner, 1969), andM. mercenaria is known only from thePleistocene (Rathbun, 1935)Family CalappiideaEocene–Oligocene to Miocene;Recent (Glaessner, 1969);Cretaceous–Recent (Schram,1986)South Pacific, Caribbean,North America, EuropeGeneralists The shell-peeling Calappa flammea isknown from the Oligocene (Rathbun,1930; Ross et al., 1964)Decapod crustaceans(Order Decapoda)(earliest decapod isPalaeopalaemon, Schram, 1986)Generalists UnknownLate Devonian to Recent(Schram, 1986); Permo-Triassicto Recent (Williams, 1996)Stomatopods(Order Stomatopoda)Extant: 350 spp, 66 genera,12familiesDevonian to RecentChiefly tropical shallowto deep water; rare intemperate zones, nonein polar regionsSpecialists Raptorial mouthparts, Devonian–Recent; folding raptorial thoracopods, inpaleostomatopods, Carboniferous;gonodactyloid shell smashers,?Cretaceous, Upper Miocene to Recent;Squillids, ?Cretaceous to Recent122