Malacostraca - Decapoda

Full reference: W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26

Parent taxon: Dromiacea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2012

See also Blow and Manning 1996 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Cyamocarcinus, Dromioidea, Dromiopsis, Eocarcinoidea, Eotrachynotocarcinus, Gemmellarocarcinus, Glaessneropsoidea, Glyptodynomene, Homolodromioidea, Konidromitoidea, Mesodromilites, Oonoton, Ovamene, Polycnemidium, Roemerus, Stephanometopon

Subtaxa: Ameridromia hyneorum

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Type: Ameridromia hyneorum

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 26883, Martin Marietta Berkeley quarry (Eocene of South Carolina)

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