Enoploclytia minor Woodward 1900 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Erymidae

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1900. Further notes on podophthalmous crustaceans from the Upper Cretaceous Formation of British Columbia, etc. The Geological Magazine, Decade IV 7:433-435

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

See also Feldmann and McPherson 1980, Rathbun 1926 and Woodward 1900

Sister taxa: Enoploclytia (Palaeastacus), Enoploclytia armata, Enoploclytia augustobonae, Enoploclytia collignoni, Enoploclytia edwardsi, Enoploclytia eocenica, Enoploclytia gardnerae, Enoploclytia gigantea, Enoploclytia granulicauda, Enoploclytia imagei, Enoploclytia leachi, Enoploclytia leachii, Enoploclytia porteri, Enoploclytia salviensis, Enoploclytia sculpta, Enoploclytia seitzi, Enoploclytia sussexiensis, Enoploclytia tenuidigitata, Enoploclytia tepeyacensis, Enoploclytia triglypta, Enoploclytia tumimanus, Enoploclytia wenoensis, Enoploclytia wintoni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hornby Island (Harvey collection), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Spray Formation of Canada

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hornby Island (Harvey collection)

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