Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Alternative combination: Plagiolophus vancouverensis
Full reference: H. Woodward. 1896. On some Podophthalmatous Crustacea from the Cretaceous Formation of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 52:221-228
Belongs to Archaeopus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Collins and Morris 1975, Rathbun 1926 and Woodward 1896
Sister taxa: Archaeopus antennatus, Archaeopus bicornutus, Archaeopus diabolus, Archaeopus ezoensis, Archaeopus lunicarinus, Archaeopus mexicanus, Archaeopus rathbunae, Archaeopus rostratus, Archaeopus schenki
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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