Meticonaxius gamma Rathbun 1935

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Micheleidae

Callianassa gamma is Callianassa theta (Rathbun, 1936, Corrections of Names of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans)

Alternative combinations: Callianassa gamma, Upogebia gamma

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160

Belongs to Meticonaxius according to O. D. Franţescu 2014

See also Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Stenzel 1935

Sister taxon: Meticonaxius rhacheochir

Type specimen: Its type locality is Chickasawhay River, which is in an Eocene carbonate marl in the Winona Formation of Mississippi

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (1: Mississippi collection)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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