Malacostraca - Decapoda - Euryplacidae
Full reference: A. B. Tucker and R. M. Feldmann. 1990. Fossil Decapod Crustaceans from the Lower Tertiary of the Prince Willam Sound Region, Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 64(3):409-427
Parent taxon: Euryplacidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2022
See also Karasawa and Kato 2003, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Tucker and Feldmann 1990
Sister taxa: Baldoplax, Chirinocarcinus, Chlinocephalus, Corallicarcinus, Eucrate, Euryplax, Paleopsopheticus, Prealpiplax, Simonellia, Stoaplax, Viaplax
Subtaxa: Orbitoplax aldersoni Orbitoplax plafkeri Orbitoplax tuckerae Orbitoplax weaveri
Type: Orbitoplax plafkeri
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Eocene of Italy (1), United States (20: California, Oregon, Washington)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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