Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeoxanthopsidae
Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1986. Two new crabs, Parapaguristes tuberculatus and Palaeoxantho libertiensis, from the Prairie Bluff Formation (Middle Maastrichtian), Union County Mississippi, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(4):604-611
Belongs to Palaeoxantho according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Bishop 1986 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSCM 1692. Its type locality is GAB52, Liberty School locality, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in the Prairie Bluff Formation of Mississippi.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at GAB52, Liberty School locality
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