Calappilia maxwelli Feldmann 1993 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann. 1993. Additions to the fossil decapod crustacean fauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 36(2):201-211

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

See also Feldmann 1993 and Rumsey et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Calappilia boehmi, Calappilia bonairensis, Calappilia borneoensis, Calappilia brooksi, Calappilia calculosa, Calappilia chilensis, Calappilia circularis, Calappilia dacica, Calappilia diglypta, Calappilia gableorum, Calappilia gemmata, Calappilia gorodiskii, Calappilia granulosa, Calappilia hondoensis, Calappilia incisa, Calappilia lyrata, Calappilia matzkei, Calappilia minuta, Calappilia perlata, Calappilia perreaulti, Calappilia scopuli, Calappilia sexdentata, Calappilia sitzi, Calappilia subovata, Calappilia tridentata, Calappilia verrucosa, Calappilia vicetina

Type specimen: AR927, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Hollands Point, which is in an Otaian marine horizon in the Pakaurangi Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hollands Point

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