Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179
Parent taxon: Palinuridae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2015
See also Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Archaeopalinurus, Eolinurus, Eurycarpus, Jasus, Justitia, Linuparus, Palaeopalinurellus, Palaeopalinurus, Palinurina, Palinurus, Panulirus, Parallelogastrus, Phalangites, Phyllamphion, Projasus, Puerulus, Rugafarius, Yunnanopalinura
Subtaxa: Archaeocarabus bowerbanki Archaeocarabus vanuaensis Archaeocarabus whitfieldi
Type: Archaeocarabus bowerbanki
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Fiji (2 collections)
• Miocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (3)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Delaware)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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