Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184
Belongs to Persephona according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1919
Sister taxa: Persephona bigranulata, Persephona enigmatica, Persephona invalida, Persephona manningi, Persephona mediterranea, Persephona niemeyeri, Persephona punctata, Persephona punctatus, Persephona rodesae
Type specimen: USNM 324425, a claw. Its type locality is Cercado de Mao - Bluff No. 3 [Cercado Fm], which is in a Tortonian offshore claystone in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (17)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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