Malacostraca - Decapoda - Componocancridae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and R. M. Green. 2008. Unusual Albian (Early Cretaceous) Brachyura (Homoloidea: Componocancroidea new superfamily) from Montana and Wyoming, USA. Journal of Crustacean Biology 28(3):502-509
Belongs to Componocancer according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019
See also Feldmann et al. 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: YPM 221136, a cephalothorax. Its type locality is South of Duck Creek, which is in an Albian marine shale in the Shell Creek Shale Formation of Montana.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana, Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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