Persephona invalida Rathbun 1929 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1929. New species of fossil decapod crustaceans from California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 19(21):469-472

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

See also Rathbun 1929

Sister taxa: Persephona bigranulata, Persephona enigmatica, Persephona manningi, Persephona mediterranea, Persephona niemeyeri, Persephona prepunctata, Persephona punctata, Persephona punctatus, Persephona rodesae

Type specimen: CAS 5243, a carapace. Its type locality is CAS 1413, San Diego, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in California.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CAS 1413, San Diego

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