Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcineretidae
Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1922. On a new Brachyurous Crustacean from the Upper Cretaceous of Jamaica. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9(10):534-541
Parent taxon: Carcineretidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vega et al. 1995
Sister taxa: Cancrixantho, Mascaranada
Subtaxa: Carcineretes planetarius Carcineretes woolacotti
Type: Carcineretes woolacotti
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belize (1 collection), Jamaica (1), Mexico (4)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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