{{Short description|Extinct genus of crabs}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Branchioplax washingtoniana 02a SR EC 07-01-12.jpg | image_caption = Fossil ''Branchioplax washingtoniana'' | fossil_range = {{Fossil_range|Eocene}} | taxon = Branchioplax | authority = Rathbun, 1916&nbsp;<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}</ref> }}

'''''Branchioplax''''' is an extinct genus of crab which existed in Alaska and Washington during the Eocene period. It was first named by Mary Rathbun in 1916, and contains ten species,<ref name="Grave"/> including ''Branchioplax washingtoniana'' from the Hoko River Formation,<ref>Page 86, ''Bulletin: Geological section, Volume 31, Issues 1-3''. By Moskovskoe obshchestvo ispytateleĭ prirody. Israel Program for Scientific Translations., 1961</ref> ''Branchioplax carmanahensis'',<ref>Page 66, ''Cretaceous and eocene decapod crustaceans from southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada''. NRC monograph publishing program, Canadian electronic library. By Carrie Ellen Schweitzer, National Research Council Canada. 2003. {{ISBN|0660190923}}/{{ISBN|9780660190921}}</ref> and ''Branchioplax ballingi''.<ref>Page 319, ''Bulletin de la Société géologique de France'', Société géologique de France, 1959.</ref> left|thumb|180px|Fossil ''Branchioplax carmanahensis''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.2517/prpsj.7.129 The Family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda, Brachyura): systematics phylogeny and fossil records.] * [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22344 ''Branchioplax''] at the Paleobiology Database

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Category:Crabs Category:Eocene crustaceans Category:Eocene arthropods of North America Category:Fossil taxa described in 1916 Category:Taxa named by Mary J. Rathbun

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