Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Alternative combination: Cancer (Cancer) chaneyi
Full reference: J. D. Nations. 1975. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 23:1-104
Belongs to Cancer according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Nations 1975 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000
Sister taxa: Cancer (Cancer), Cancer allisoni, Cancer araneus, Cancer bainbridgensis, Cancer beaumonti, Cancer bellianus, Cancer borealis, Cancer brewerii, Cancer burtini, Cancer carniolicus, Cancer cassivelaunus, Cancer coosensis, Cancer dorsipes, Cancer durhami, Cancer fissus, Cancer fujinaensis, Cancer gabbi, Cancer garthi, Cancer irroratus, Cancer johngarthi, Cancer maculatus, Cancer marri, Cancer meticurensis, Cancer modestus, Cancer nancei, Cancer pagurus, Cancer parvidens, Cancer pelagicus, Cancer porteri, Cancer proavitus, Cancer productus, Cancer punctulatus, Cancer raninus, Cancer reversus, Cancer rhomboides, Cancer santosi, Cancer solitarius, Cancer spinosusdup, Cancer styriacus, Cancer tomowoi, Cancer tomowoidup, Cancer vancalsteri, Cancer villabersiani, Cancer whitfieldi, Cancer yanceyi, Cancer zahrae, Cancer zameniscus
Type specimen: LACMIP 4436, a claw. Its type locality is LACMIP 130-7, Timms Point, San Pedro, which is in a Pleistocene marine horizon in the Timms Point Silt Formation of California.
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mexico (1 collection), United States (9: California)
• Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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