Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dromiidae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179
Parent taxon: Basinotopidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2012
See also Beschin et al. 2012, Collins 2002, M'Coy 1849 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Lucanthonisia, Mclaynotopus, Noetlingocarcinus
Subtaxa: Basinotopus lamarckii Basinotopus tricornis
Type: Inachus lamarckii
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Italy (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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