Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aethridae
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 Hepatus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Todd and Collins 2005
Sister taxa: Hepatus biformis, Hepatus bottomsi, Hepatus chiliensis, Hepatus gronovii, Hepatus guraboensis, Hepatus lineatus, Hepatus nodosus, Hepatus praecox, Hepatus princeps, Hepatus spinimarginatus
Type specimen: F1662, a carapace
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1)
• Miocene of Mexico (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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