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: Annuntidiogenes, Calcinus, Cancellus, Ciliopagurus, Clibanarius, Diogenes, Longipaguristes, Parapetrochirus, Petrochirus, Striadiogenes, Strigopagurus

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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