Cretacocarcinus smithi Feldmann et al. 2007 (crab)

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

Belongs to Cretacocarcinus 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: Cretacocarcinus fortis

Type specimen: Manitoba Museum I-4077, a carapace. Its type locality is Harrowby, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine claystone in the Pierre Shale Formation of Canada.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Harrowby

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