Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, J. Fam, W. A. Hessin, S. W. Hetrick, T. G. Nyborg, and R. L. M. Ross. 2003. Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. NRC Research Press 1-66
Belongs to Cenomanocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2016
See also Guinot et al. 2008, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Cenomanocarcinus armatus, Cenomanocarcinus boedekeri, Cenomanocarcinus cantabricus, Cenomanocarcinus carabus, Cenomanocarcinus cookseyi, Cenomanocarcinus dissimilis, Cenomanocarcinus hierosolymitanus, Cenomanocarcinus inflatus, Cenomanocarcinus multituberculatus, Cenomanocarcinus nammourensis, Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis, Cenomanocarcinus renfroae, Cenomanocarcinus robertsi, Cenomanocarcinus simplex, Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis, Cenomanocarcinus tenuicarinatus, Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni
Type specimen: Its type locality is Eden Creek, which is in a Turonian/Campanian marginal marine sandstone/siltstone in the Comox Formation of Canada
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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