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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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