Malacostraca - Decapoda - Macrocheiridae
Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 1999. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Annals of Carnegie Museum 68(4):215-273
Belongs to Macrocheira according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2020
See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 1999 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Macrocheira columbiaensis, Macrocheira ginzanensis, Macrocheira jayi, Macrocheira kaempferi, Macrocheira sullivani, Macrocheira teglandi, Macrocheira yabei
Type specimen: CM 39683, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is RB40, Oak Bay, which is in a Priabonian marine siliciclastic in the Quimper Formation of Washington.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at RB40, Oak Bay
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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