Cristella Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46

Parent taxon: Orithopsidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Aetocarcinus, Anoplocarcinus, Bellcarcinus, Cherpiocarcinus, Chronocancer, Colombicarcinus, Marycarcinus, Orithopsis, Paradoxicarcinus, Paradoxilissopsa, Planocarcinus, Shazella, Silvacarcinus, Texicancer

Subtaxa: Cristella hastata

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Type: Cristella hastata

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cristella in the database

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