Malacostraca - Decapoda - Camarocarcinidae
Full reference: F. D. Holland and A. M. Cvancara. 1958. Crabs from the Cannonball Formation (Paleocene) of North Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 32:495-505
Belongs to Camarocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Holland and Cvancara 1958, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2016 and van Bakel et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Camarocarcinus obtusus, Camarocarcinus quinquetuberculatus
Type specimen: USNM 562093, a carapace. Its type locality is West side of road, west of Moffit, which is in a Danian marine sandstone in the Cannonball Formation of North Dakota.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (4: North Dakota collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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