Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and S. L. Jakobsen. 2003. New crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Eocene (Ypresian/Lutetian) Lillebaelt Clay Formation of Jutland, Denmark. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 30:63-96

Parent taxon: Polybiinae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021

See also Collins and Jakobsen 2003, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Archaeogeryon, Bathynectes, Benthochascon, Bericocarcinus, Boschettia, Brusinia, Coeloma, Faksecarcinus, Leiocarcinus, Liocarcinus, Lovaroides, Macropipus, Maeandricampus, Megokkos, Minohellenus, Necora, Olicarcinus, Ophthalmoplax, Parathranites, Polybius, Pororaria, Portufuria, Portunites, Echinolatus, Nectocarcinus, Raymannius, Coenophthalmus

Subtaxa: Falsiportunites longispinosus

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Type: Falsiportunites longispinosus

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Trelde Naes (MGUH collection) (Eocene to Eocene of Denmark)

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