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WALKER AND BRETT—POST-PALEOZOIC PATTERNS IN MARINE PREDATIONMolariform teeth and shell-crushingclaws (Miocene to Recent)Gore and Soto (1979, p. 67) state thatparthenopids are omnivores anddetritivores; Debelius (1999, p. 259)figures Parthenope horrida eating apufferfish; Vermeij 1978, p. 40, statesthat Parthenope (Daldorfia ) horrida isa shell-crusher in the labMolariform teeth on major crusher clawas in Homarus (Cretaceous to Recent;Glaessner, 1969)Chiefly boreal andtemperate; shallow anddeep waterGeneralists (sea urchins, polychaetes,scavengers, molluscs)Temperate to tropical Generalists, omnivores, detritivores; onespecies known as a shell-crusher(Parthenope horrida )GeneralistsBoreal, temperate totropicalGeneralists(sea urchins)Temperate to tropical;deep and shallow waterGeneralists(mollusks, sea cucumbers; Williams, 1984)Temperate zones, NorthAtlantic, Europe; shallowand deep water (manymigrate)Generalists(molluscs, hydroids, crustaceans,lobsters, polychaetes, brittle stars,mussels, limpets, lobster molts, chitons,bryozoans, scallops, oysters, sea urchins,seaweeds; Williams, 1984; Lawton andKavalli, 1995)Temperate to tropical Generalists?(?scyphozoan medusae; Williams, 1984)(Table 1, cont.)Family CancridaeEocene to Recent(Schram, 1986)Family ParthenopidaeEocene to Recent(Schram, 1986)Family MajidaeEocene to Recent(Schram, 1986)Family GrapsidaeEocene to Recent(Schram, 1986)Infraorder PalinuroideaFamily Palinuridae(Lobsters)?Lower Triassic, Mid-Triassic toRecent (Williams, 1996)Superfamily NephropidaeFamily Nephropidae(Clawed marine lobsters)Permo-Triassic to Recent(Williams, 1996)Family Scyllaridae(Spanish Lobsters)?Lower Cretaceous; ?lowerEocene to Recent(Williams, 1996)123