Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Necronectes vaughani Rathbun is now N. vicksburgensis (Stenzel) == Portunus (?) vicksburgensis Stenzel (from Rathbun, 1936, Corrections of Names of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans)
Synonym: Necronectes vaughani Rathbun 1935
Full reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1935. Middle Eocene and Oligocene Decapod Crustaceans from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The American Midland Naturalist 16(3):379-400
Belongs to Necronectes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1935
Sister taxa: Necronectes batalleri, Necronectes beaumonti, Necronectes collinsi, Necronectes drydeni, Necronectes iranensis, Necronectes nodosa, Necronectes nodosus, Necronectes proavita, Necronectes proavitus, Necronectes schafferi, Necronectes summus, Necronectes tajinensis, Necronectes vidalianus
Type specimens:
- Necronectes vicksburgensis: Its type locality is Mint Spring Bayou Decapods, which is in an Oligocene carbonate marl/mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in Mississippi
- Necronectes vaughani: Its type locality is From hard ledge at Glass Bayou, Vicksburg, which is in an Oligocene marine limestone in the Glendon Formation of Mississippi.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (3: Florida, Mississippi collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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