Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

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

Parent taxon: Orithopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2003, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2016 and van Bakel et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Aetocarcinus, Anoplocarcinus, Bellcarcinus, Cherpiocarcinus, Chronocancer, Colombicarcinus, Cristella, Marycarcinus, Orithopsis, Paradoxilissopsa, Planocarcinus, Shazella, Silvacarcinus, Texicancer

Subtaxa: Paradoxicarcinus nimonoides

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Type: Paradoxicarcinus nimonoides

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cowichan Lake (Cretaceous of British Columbia)

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