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 Sandomingia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1919 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: ANSP 2257, 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:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), Panama (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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