Coeloma
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| Coeloma Temporal range: | |
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| Fossils of Coeloma vigil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Geryonidae |
| Genus: | †Coeloma A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Coeloma vigil [2] A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 | |
Coeloma is an extinct genus of crabs belonging to the family Geryonidae[3] or Mathildellidae.[4] The genus includes 17 species,[3] formerly distributed among several subgenera.[2] The fossil record of the genus extends from the Thanetian to the Pliocene.[1]
