Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1983. Fossil Decapod Crustacea from the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation, Union County, Mississippi. Journal of Crustacean Biology 3(3):417-430
Parent taxon: Retroplumidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Hyžný and Muller 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Archaeopus, Bathypluma, Costacopluma, Gaudipluma, Loerenthopluma, Loerenthoplumopsa, Retrocypoda, Retropluma, Serrablopluma
Subtaxa: Cristipluma mississippiensis
Type: Cristipluma mississippiensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Mississippi, mississippi collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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