Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis Feldmann et al. 1976 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, E. E. B. Awotua, and J. Welshenbaugh. 1976. Necrocarcinus siouxensis a New Species of Calappid Crab (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Fox Hills Formation (Cretaceous: Maastrichtian) of North Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):985-990

Belongs to Cenomanocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Cenomanocarcinus armatus, Cenomanocarcinus beardi, Cenomanocarcinus boedekeri, Cenomanocarcinus cantabricus, Cenomanocarcinus carabus, Cenomanocarcinus cookseyi, Cenomanocarcinus dissimilis, Cenomanocarcinus hierosolymitanus, Cenomanocarcinus inflatus, Cenomanocarcinus multituberculatus, Cenomanocarcinus nammourensis, Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis, Cenomanocarcinus renfroae, Cenomanocarcinus robertsi, Cenomanocarcinus tenuicarinatus, Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Solen, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis in the database

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