Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Synonym: Pseuderiphia 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: Tumidocarcinidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018
See also Beschin et al. 2018, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Feldmann et al. 1995, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Schweitzer 2005, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agostella, Baricarcinus, Cyclocorystes, Dynomenopsis, Lobonotus, Nitotacarcinus, Paratumidocarcinus, Paronacarcinus, Pulalius, Styracocarcinus, Titanocarcinus, Tumidocarcinus
Subtaxa: Xanthilites alabamensis Xanthilites bowerbanki Xanthilites gerthi Xanthilites interpunctatus Xanthilites pentagonalis Xanthilites rathbunae Xanthilites traubi Xanthilites verrucoides
Type: Xanthilites bowerbankii
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Italy (1 collection), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Austria (1), United States (2: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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