Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolidae
Synonyms: Eohomola Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Metahomola Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992
Full reference: G. A. Bishop. 1988. New fossil crabs, Plagiopthalmus izetti, Latheticocarcinus sharpiroi, and Sagittiformosus carabus (Crustacea, Decapoda), from the western interior Cretaceous, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(2):375-381
Parent taxon: Homolidae according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2012
See also Bishop 1988, Collins et al. 1993, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, De Angeli and Ceccon 2013, Jakobsen and Collins 1997 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Antarctomithrax, Ariecornibus, Cretalamoha, Dagnaudus, Doerflesia, Homola, Homolochunia, Homologenus, Homolomannia, Homolopsis, Hoplitocarcinus, Lamoha, Latreillopsis, Lignihomola, Londinimola, Moloha, Navarrahomola, Nogarhomola, Paromola, Paromolopsis, Prohomola, Yaldwynopsis, Zygastrocarcinus
Subtaxa: Latheticocarcinus adelphinus Latheticocarcinus affinis Latheticocarcinus atlanticus Latheticocarcinus brevis Latheticocarcinus brightoni Latheticocarcinus centurialis Latheticocarcinus declinatus Latheticocarcinus dispar Latheticocarcinus italicus Latheticocarcinus ludvigseni Latheticocarcinus pikeae Latheticocarcinus punctatus Latheticocarcinus schlueteri Latheticocarcinus shapiroi Latheticocarcinus spinigus Latheticocarcinus transiens
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), Greenland (4), Japan (3), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (9: Delaware, South Dakota, Texas, mississippi)
Total: 24 collections including 26 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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