Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeoxanthopsidae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer, J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martiniez, A. Hull, R. M. Feldmann and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15
Belongs to Palaeoxanthopsis according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea, Palaeoxanthopsis meyapaquensis, Parazanthopsis meyapaquensis
Type specimen: UPRMP 2673, a carapace. Its type locality is El Rayo Locality 1, which is in a Maastrichtian platform/shelf-margin reef limestone in the El Rayo Formation of Puerto Rico.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at El Rayo Locality 1
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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