Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Synonym: Necrozius Milne-Edwards 1864
Full reference: T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44
Parent taxon: Tumidocarcinidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1980 and Squires 1999
Sister taxa: Agostella, Baricarcinus, Dynomenopsis, Lobonotus, Nitotacarcinus, Paratumidocarcinus, Paronacarcinus, Pulalius, Styracocarcinus, Titanocarcinus, Tumidocarcinus, Xanthilites
Subtaxa: Cyclocorystes aldersoni Cyclocorystes pulchellus Cyclocorystes vulgatus
Type: Cyclocorystes pulchellus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (5 collections), United States (2: California)
• Paleogene of Belgium (1)
• Paleocene of United States (2: California)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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