Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1931. A New Fossil Palinurid From Staten Island. Proceedings of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences 5:161-162
Belongs to Linuparus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1931 and Rathbun 1935
Sister taxa: Linuparus (Linuparus), Linuparus adkinsi, Linuparus africanus, Linuparus bererensis, Linuparus bigranulatus, Linuparus canadensis, Linuparus carteri, Linuparus dentatus, Linuparus duelmenensis, Linuparus dzheirantuiensis, Linuparus eocenicus, Linuparus euthymei, Linuparus grimmeri, Linuparus hantscheli, Linuparus japonicus, Linuparus keysi, Linuparus korura, Linuparus laevicephalus, Linuparus macellarii, Linuparus petkovici, Linuparus pustulosus, Linuparus qualitus, Linuparus richardsi, Linuparus schluteri, Linuparus scyllariformis, Linuparus shacklefordae, Linuparus sordidus, Linuparus spinosus, Linuparus stolleyi, Linuparus straili, Linuparus tarrantensis, Linuparus texanus, Linuparus trigonus, Linuparus vancouverensis, Linuparus watkinsi, Linuparus wilcoxensis, Linuparus (Podocratus) richardsi, Linuparus (Podocrates) spinosus, Linuparus (Eolinuparus) vancouverensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, which is in a Santonian/Campanian marine marl/claystone in the Merchantville Formation of New York
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: New York collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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