Malacostraca - Decapoda - Necrocarcinidae
Full reference: T. Bell. 1863. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea, Part II. Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 14(63):1-40
Parent taxon: Necrocarcinidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Feldmann et al. 1976, Feldmann et al. 1993, Karasawa et al. 2014, Rathbun 1926, Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Schweitzer et al. 2016 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arcticocarcinus, Elektrocarcinus, Hadrocarcinus
Subtaxa: Necrocarcinus bodrakensis Necrocarcinus gorbenkoi Necrocarcinus hodgesi Necrocarcinus inornatus Necrocarcinus labeschii Necrocarcinus minutus Necrocarcinus oklahomensis Necrocarcinus pawpawensis Necrocarcinus pierrensis Necrocarcinus rathbunae Necrocarcinus senonensis Necrocarcinus tauricus Necrocarcinus undecimtuberculatus
Type: Orithyia labeschii
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Poland (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (2), France (5), Germany (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (8: Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
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