Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calcinidae

Full reference: J. A. Todd and J. S. H. Collins. 2005. Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32:53-85

Belongs to Dardanus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Todd and Collins 2005

Sister taxa: Dardanus arnoldi, Dardanus arrosor, Dardanus australis, Dardanus balaitus, Dardanus bayani, Dardanus braggensis, Dardanus colosseus, Dardanus crassimanus, Dardanus curtimanus, Dardanus deformis, Dardanus faxensis, Dardanus gemmatus, Dardanus helleri, Dardanus hungaricus, Dardanus impressus, Dardanus lauensis, Dardanus mediterraneus, Dardanus megistos, Dardanus mexicanus, Dardanus muelleri, Dardanus pedunculatus, Dardanus portmorantensis, Dardanus setifer, Dardanus squamatus, Dardanus substriatus, Dardanus suessi

Type specimen: F1644, a claw

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Cayo Agua Island (Pliocene of Panama)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.