Actaea cretacea Rathbun 1935 (stone crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae

probably not Actaea

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 Actaea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Rathbun 1935

Sister taxa: Actaea acantha, Actaea bifrons, Actaea calzadai, Actaea persica, Actaea polyacantha, Actaea pura, Actaea rufopunctata, Actaea semblatae, Actaea tropicana, Actaea turcocampestris

Type specimen: Its type locality is 4 1/2 mi SE of Fort Worth, 1/4 mi S of International Great Northern Railway..., which is in an Albian marine claystone in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at 4 1/2 mi SE of Fort Worth, 1/4 mi S of International Great Northern Railway...

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