Malacostraca - Decapoda - Menippidae
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 Menippe according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1935
Sister taxa: Menippe brevimanus, Menippe burnsi, Menippe floridana, Menippe frescoensis, Menippe jacksonensis, Menippe mercenaria, Menippe nodifrons, Menippe oceanica, Menippe rumphii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Timber Creek, 4 mi W of Lewisville and a few hundred yards below a road bridge, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in Texas
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Mississippi, Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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