Pseudomicippella Schweitzer et al. 2011 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Synonym: Pseudomicippe Pelseneer 1886 [replaced name]

Full reference: C. E. Schweitzer, P. C. Dworschak, and J. W. Martin. 2011. Replacement names for several fossil Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology 31:361-363

Parent taxon: Calappidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2011

See also Poore and Ahyong 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2023

Sister taxa: Acanthocarpus, Bittnerilia, Calappa, Calappella, Calappilia, Calappinae, Carinocalappa, Corallomursia, Corallomursinae, Cryptosoma, Cycloes, Matutinae, Mursia, Mursilata, Mursilia, Mursiopsis, Nantocyclois, Necrocarcininae, Paracorallomursia, Paracyclois, Pseudocorallomursia, Stenodromia, Tavernolesia, Tutus

Subtaxa: Pseudomicippella granulosa

view classification

Type: Pseudomicippe granulosa

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mont-Saint-Pierre (Bosquet collection) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.