Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
Parent taxon: Majoidea according to F. A. Ferratges et al. 2023
See also Ahyong et al. 2007, Beschin et al. 2005, Collins et al. 2003, Feldmann and Duncan 1992, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Feldmann et al. 2006, Karasawa 1990, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Quayle and Collins 1981, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer 2001, Schweitzer and Feldmann 1999, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2020 and Todd and Collins 2005
Sister taxa: Epialtidae, Hymenosomidae, Inachidae, Inachoididae, Macrocheiridae, Oregoniidae, Priscinachidae
Subtaxa: Actinotocarcininae Disspinamithrax Eurynolambrinae Majiinae Majinae Micromaiinae Mithracinae Planoterginae Platymaia
Type: Maja
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (7 collections), Ecuador (1), Haiti (2), Jamaica (3), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (3: Florida, Virgin Islands)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Cuba (1), Fiji (2), Italy (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Cuba (1), Fiji (1), Hungary (10), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Malta (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Poland (1)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Italy (2)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Italy (13), New Zealand (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Florida, North Carolina)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2), United States (2: Arkansas, New Jersey)
Total: 94 collections including 136 occurrences