Bittnerilia de Angeli and Garassino 2003 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: A. de Angeli and A. Garassino. 2003. Bittnerilia, new genus for Lambrus eocaenus Bittner, 1883 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Calappidae) from the middle Eocene of Veneto (N Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 144(1):13-22

Parent taxon: Calappidae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019

See also Beschin et al. 2012, Beschin et al. 2016, de Angeli and Garassino 2003 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Acanthocarpus, Calappa, Calappella, Calappilia, Calappinae, Carinocalappa, Corallomursia, Corallomursinae, Cryptosoma, Cycloes, Matutinae, Mursia, Mursilata, Mursilia, Mursiopsis, Nantocyclois, Necrocarcininae, Paracorallomursia, Paracyclois, Pseudocorallomursia, Pseudomicippella, Stenodromia, Tavernolesia, Tutus

Subtaxa: Bittnerilia dentata Bittnerilia eocaena Bittnerilia eocaenus Bittnerilia granosa Bittnerilia pentagonalis

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Italy (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences

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