Seorsus wadei Bishop 1988 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Ibericancridae

Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1988. A New Crab, Seorsus Wadei, from the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation, Union County, Mississippi. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(1):72-78

Belongs to Seorsus according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2017

See also Bishop 1988 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Seorsus kauffmani, Seorsus millerae

Type specimen: GSCM 1693, a carapace. Its type locality is Blue Springs, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shelf claystone in the Coon Creek Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Blue Springs

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