Menippe cretacea Rathbun 1935 (crab)

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

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