Malacostraca - Decapoda - Orithopsidae

Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and R. J. Williams. 2004. A new genus and species of necrocarcinid crab (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Upper Cretaceous of England. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (31)33-35

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

See also Collins and Williams 2004, Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2016

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

Subtaxa: Shazella abbotsensis

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Type: Shazella abbotsensis

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Abbots Cliff, Folkestone (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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