Malacostraca - Decapoda - Diogenidae

Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1986. Two new crabs, Parapaguristes tuberculatus and Palaeoxantho libertiensis, from the Prairie Bluff Formation (Middle Maastrichtian), Union County Mississippi, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4):604-611

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

Sister taxa: Bachmayerus, Cancellus, Ciliopagurus, Clibanarius, Cretacocalcinus, Dardaninae, Dardanus, Diogenes, Eocalcinus, Eopaguropsis, Joecalcinus, Longipaguristes, Paguristes, Paguropsis, Palaeopetrochirus, Parapetrochirus, Paronapaguropsis, Petrochirus, Striadiogenes, Strigopagurus, Tetralobistes, Tithopaguristes, Ululapagurus

Subtaxa: Parapaguristes tuberculatus

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Type: Parapaguristes tuberculatus

Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at GAB52, Liberty School locality (Cretaceous of Mississippi)

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