Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeoxanthopsidae

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer. 2003. Utility of Proxy Characters for Classification of Fossils: An Example from the Fossil Xanthoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology 77(6):1107-1128

Parent taxon: Palaeoxanthopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Schweitzer 2003, Schweitzer 2005 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Hyphalocarcinus, Jakobsenius, Lobulata, Palaeoxantho, Palaeoxanthopsis, Paraverrucoides, Rocacarcinus, Tehuacana, Verrucoides

Subtaxa: Remia africana

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Type: Xanthopsis africana

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Vrchlabí locality (Permian of Czechia)

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