Malacostraca - Decapoda - Camarocarcinidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, R.-Y. Li, and C. E. Schweitzer. 2007. A new family, genus, and species of crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:1741-1752

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

See also Feldmann et al. 2007, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Camarocarcinus

Subtaxa: Cretacocarcinus fortis Cretacocarcinus smithi

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Type: Cretacocarcinus smithi

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Harrowby (Cretaceous of Manitoba)

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