Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae
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 Mesorhoea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Rathbun 1919
Sister taxa: Mesorhoea idae, Mesorhoea sexspinosa
Type specimen: USNM 324489, 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 (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (4)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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