Aratidecthes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}}

{{Taxobox

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| subphylum = Crustacea

| classis = Malacostraca

| ordo = Aeschronectida

| familia = Aratidecthidae

| genus = Aratidecthes

| genus_authority = Schram, 1969 {{cite journal |title=British Carboniferous Malacostraca |year=1979 |journal=Fieldiana Geology |volume=40 |pages=1–129 |author=Frederick R. Schram |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.3360 |doi-access=free |url=http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-01/britishcarbonife40schr/britishcarbonife40schr.pdf}}

| type_species = Aratidecthes johnsoni Schram 1969

}}

Aratidecthes is an extinct genus of crustaceans.Page 119, The Biology of Crustacea: Systematics, the fossil record, and biogeography, Volume 1 of The Biology of Crustacea, by Dorothy E. Bliss/Volume 1 of Systematics, the Fossil Record, and Biogeography, by Lawrence G. Abele. Academic Press, 1982. {{ISBN|0121064018}}/{{ISBN|9780121064013}}