Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Synonym: Leiochilus Reuss 1859
Full reference: T. Bell. 1858. A Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain, Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 10:1-44
Parent taxon: Polybiinae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Glaessner 1960, Karasawa 1992, Karasawa 1993, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008, Quayle and Collins 1981, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer and Feldmann 1999, Schweitzer et al. 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Tucker and Feldmann 1990
Sister taxa: Archaeogeryon, Bathynectes, Benthochascon, Bericocarcinus, Boschettia, Brusinia, Coeloma, Faksecarcinus, Falsiportunites, Leiocarcinus, Liocarcinus, Lovaroides, Macropipus, Maeandricampus, Megokkos, Minohellenus, Necora, Olicarcinus, Ophthalmoplax, Parathranites, Polybius, Pororaria, Portufuria, Echinolatus, Coenophthalmus, Nectocarcinus, Raymannius
Subtaxa: Portunites alaskensis Portunites angustata Portunites eocaenica Portunites hoepfneri Portunites incertus Portunites insculpta Portunites kattachiensis Portunites macrospinus Portunites nodosa Portunites rosenfeldi Portunites stintoni Portunites subovata Portunites sylviae Portunites triangulum Portunites vicksburgensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brunei Darussalam (2 collections)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of United States (3: Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Colombia), Italy (2), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (6: California, Oregon, Washington)
Total: 23 collections including 25 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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