Calappoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Aptian|Recent}}

| image = Calappa japonica.jpg

| image_caption = Calappa japonica seen from above

| taxon = Calappoidea

| authority = H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = Calappidae
Matutidae

}}

Calappoidea is a superfamily of crabs comprising the two families Calappidae and Matutidae.{{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 }} The earliest fossils attributable to the Calappoidea date from the Aptian.{{cite journal |title=A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary |author=Andreas Brösing |year=2008 |journal=Crustaceana |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=271–287 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/30458/30458.pdf |doi=10.1163/156854008783564091|citeseerx=10.1.1.652.1701 }}