Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae
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 Pilumnus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017 and Rathbun 1919
Sister taxa: Pilumnus borradailei, Pilumnus cucaoensis, Pilumnus fookimensis, Pilumnus hirtellus, Pilumnus lunatus, Pilumnus mediterraneus, Pilumnus olivellai, Pilumnus pannosus, Pilumnus ristorii, Pilumnus sayi, Pilumnus scaber, Pilumnus spinossimus, Pilumnus villosissimus
Type specimen: USNM 324484, a claw. Its type locality is Cercado de Mao - Bluff No. 3 [Cercado Fm], which is in a Tortonian offshore claystone in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cercado de Mao - Bluff No. 3 [Cercado Fm]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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