Rhachiosoma bispinosa Woodward 1871 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1871. Notes on some new Crustaceans from the Lower Eocene of Portsmouth. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 27:90-93

Belongs to Rhachiosoma according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021

See also Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Woodward 1871

Sister taxon: Rhachiosoma echinata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Portsmouth dockyard extension, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the United Kingdom

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Portsmouth dockyard extension

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