Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeoxanthopsidae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer. 2005. The genus Xanthilites Bell, 1858 and a new xanthoid family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea): new hypotheses on the origin of the Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838. Journal of Paleontology 79(2):277-295
Parent taxon: Palaeoxanthopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Schweitzer 2005 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Lobulata, Palaeoxantho, Palaeoxanthopsis, Paraverrucoides, Remia, Rocacarcinus, Verrucoides
Subtaxa: Jakobsenius cretaceus
Type: Xanthilites cretacea
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Austria (1 collection), France (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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