Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Full reference: C. Varela and C. E. Schweitzer. 2011. New genus and new species of Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Colon Formation, Cuba. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 37:13-16

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

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Varela and Schweitzer 2011

Sister taxa: Euphylax, Pheophthalmus, Podophthalmus, Psygmophthalmus, Sandomingia, Saratunus, Viaophthalmus

Subtaxa: Paraeuphylax cubaensis

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Type: Paraeuphylax cubaensis

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Jaguey Grande quarry J-4 (Oligocene to Miocene of Cuba)

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