Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Alternative combination: Cancer (Cancer) fissus
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1908. Descriptions of fossil crabs from California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35:341-349
Belongs to Cancer according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Nations 1975, Rathbun 1908, Rathbun 1926 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002
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 chaneyi, Cancer coosensis, Cancer dorsipes, Cancer durhami, 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 styriacus, Cancer tomowoi, Cancer vancalsteri, Cancer villabersiani, Cancer whitfieldi, Cancer yanceyi, Cancer zahrae, Cancer zameniscus
Type specimen: USNM 165477, a carapace. Its type locality is USGS 4756, Henry Spring, which is in a Zanclean coastal siliciclastic in the Etchegoin Formation of California.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (4: California collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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