Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

Full reference: A. De Angeli and A. Garassino. 2006. New reports of decapod crustaceans from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 147(2):267-294

Belongs to Portunites according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also De Angeli and Garassino 2006

Sister taxa: Portunites alaskensis, Portunites angustata, Portunites eocaenica, Portunites hoepfneri, Portunites incertus, Portunites insculpta, Portunites kattachiensis, Portunites macrospinus, Portunites nodosa, Portunites stintoni, Portunites subovata, Portunites sylviae, Portunites triangulum, Portunites vicksburgensis

Type specimen: MFSN 28995, a shell. Its type locality is Almadis (Castelnuovo del Friuli), which is in a Ypresian marine siliciclastic in Italy.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Almadis (Castelnuovo del Friuli)

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