Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1919. West Indian Tertiary decapod crustaceans. Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the West Indies 157-184
Belongs to Scylla according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1919, Rathbun 1930 and Schweitzer et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Scylla floridana, Scylla hassiaca, Scylla laevis, Scylla marianae, Scylla michelini, Scylla molassica, Scylla ozawai, Scylla serrata, Scylla serratus, Scylla sindensis
Type specimen: ANSP 2267, a carapace. Its type locality is Lower half of Yaqui del Norte River valley, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine siliciclastic in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
• Miocene of Brazil (4), the Dominican Republic (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of Puerto Rico (2), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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