Malacostraca - Decapoda

Superfamily and Family unknown

Full reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):119-171

Parent taxon: Caridea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Bravi and Garassino 1998

Sister taxa: Acanthinopus, Alcmonacaris, Alpheoidea, Atyoidea, Blaculla, Bresilioidea, Buergerocaris, Campylonotoidea, Crangonoidea, Galatheacaridoidea, Gampsurus, Hefriga, Leiothorax, Nematocarcinoidea, Oplophoroidea, Palaemonoidea, Pandaloidea, Pasiphaeoidea, Physetocaridoidea, Pinnacaris, Pleopteryxoidea, Procaridoidea, Processoidea, Psalidopodoidea, Schernfeldia, Stylodactyloidea

Subtaxa: Parvocaris samnitica

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Type: Parvocaris samnitica

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Le Cavere site, Pietraroia (Museo Napoli collection) (Cretaceous of Italy)

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