Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:330-335
Parent taxon: Mecochiridae according to S. Charbonnier et al. 2023
See also Feldmann et al. 2015, Feldmann et al. 1993, Feldmann et al. 1995, Rathbun 1926, Rathbun 1935, Robin et al. 2016, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2024 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Atherfieldastacus, Eumorphia, Huhatanka, Jabaloya, Mecochirus, Romaniacheiros, Selenisca
Subtaxa: Meyeria bolivari Meyeria crofti Meyeria gracilis Meyeria harveyi Meyeria hurtrelleorum Meyeria ornata Meyeria ornatus Meyeria pueblaensis Meyeria vectensis
Type: Astacus ornatus
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (2), Germany (2), Mexico (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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