Calappa heberti Brocchi 1883 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: P. Brocchi. 1883. Notes sur les crustacés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la Hongrie. Annales des Sciences Géologiques 14(2):1-8

Belongs to Calappa according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Brocchi 1883, Lörenthey 1898 and Müller 1984

Sister taxa: Calappa chungii, Calappa costaricana, Calappa depressa, Calappa earlei, Calappa flammea, Calappa gallus, Calappa granulata, Calappa granulatus, Calappa hepatica, Calappa japonica, Calappa lanensis, Calappa laraensis, Calappa lienharti, Calappa lophos, Calappa madoerensis, Calappa matzkei, Calappa nitida, Calappa oboui, Calappa ocalanus, Calappa pavimenta, Calappa philargius, Calappa praelata, Calappa protopustulosa, Calappa pustulosa, Calappa restricta, Calappa robertsi, Calappa sahelensis, Calappa sangiranensis, Calappa sexaspinosa, Calappa springeri, Calappa zinsmeisteri, Calappa zurcheri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Rakos, near Pesth, which is in a Badenian marine horizon in Hungary

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Hungary (6 collections)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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