Malacostraca - Decapoda - Viaiidae
originally listed as Virgiscalpellum wrighti
Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1946. New Cretaceous cirripedes and crab. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 12:552-561
Belongs to Vectis according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2012
See also Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Withers 1946
Sister taxa: Vectis caseyi, Vectis collinsi, Vectis echinorum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Crackers, Atherfield (Wright collection), which is in an Aptian marine siliciclastic in the Atherfield Clay Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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