Necronectes proavita Rathbun 1918 (swimming crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Alternative combination: Gatunia proavita

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184

Belongs to Necronectes according to F. J. Vega et al. 1999

See also Collins and Morris 1976, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Schweitzer et al. 2002 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Necronectes batalleri, Necronectes beaumonti, Necronectes collinsi, Necronectes drydeni, Necronectes iranensis, Necronectes nodosa, Necronectes nodosus, Necronectes proavitus, Necronectes schafferi, Necronectes summus, Necronectes tajinensis, Necronectes vicksburgensis, Necronectes vidalianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 5659, Gatun Dam, which is in a Tortonian marine siliciclastic in the Gatun Formation of Panama

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Panama (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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