Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160
Belongs to Callinectes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1935
Sister taxa: Callinectes bellicosus, Callinectes bellicosusdup, Callinectes declivis, Callinectes jamaicensis, Callinectes paraensis, Callinectes quilonensis, Callinectes reticulatus, Callinectes sapidus, Callinectes toxodes
Type specimen: Its type locality is Perdue Hill [Suwannee Fm], which is in an Oligocene marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Alabama
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Perdue Hill [Suwannee Fm]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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