Malacostraca - Aeschronectida - Kallidecthidae

Full reference: F.R. Schram. 1969. Some Middle Pennsylvanian Hoplocarida (Crustacea) and their phylogenetic significance. Fieldiana Geology 12:235-289

Parent taxon: Kallidecthidae according to F. R. Schram 1979

See also Schram 1969 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Kallidecthes eagari Kallidecthes richardson

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Type: Kallidecthes richardson

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Mazon Creek, Essex fauna (Carboniferous of Illinois)

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