Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae

Full reference: W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26

Parent taxon: Cancrinae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019

See also Blow and Manning 1996, Blow and Manning 1997 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Anatolikos, Anisospinos, Cancer, Ceronnectes, Cyclocancer, Glebocarcinus, Metacarcinus, Microdium, Notocarcinus, Platepistoma, Romaleon, Santeecarcinus

Subtaxa: Sarahcarcinus campbellorum

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Type: Sarahcarcinus campbellorum

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 26883, Martin Marietta Berkeley quarry (Eocene of South Carolina)

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