Malacostraca - Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and R. W. Portell. 2007. First report of Costacopluma Collins and Morris, 1975 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the Eocene of Alabama, U.S.A. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(1):90-96
Belongs to Costacopluma according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann and Portell 2007 and Luque et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Costacopluma australis, Costacopluma bifida, Costacopluma binodosa, Costacopluma bishopi, Costacopluma concava, Costacopluma maroccana, Costacopluma mexicana, Costacopluma nordestina, Costacopluma salamanca, Costacopluma senegalensis, Costacopluma squiresi, Costacopluma texana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Point A Dam Site, which is in a Lutetian estuary/bay sandstone/claystone in the Tallahatta Formation of Alabama
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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