Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolidae
Alternative combinations: Homolopsis punctata, Metahomola punctata
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1917. New species of South Dakota Cretaceous crabs. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 52(2182):385-391
Belongs to Latheticocarcinus according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2012
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, Rathbun 1917 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Latheticocarcinus adelphinus, Latheticocarcinus affinis, Latheticocarcinus atlanticus, Latheticocarcinus brevis, Latheticocarcinus brightoni, Latheticocarcinus centurialis, Latheticocarcinus declinatus, Latheticocarcinus dispar, Latheticocarcinus italicus, Latheticocarcinus ludvigseni, Latheticocarcinus pikeae, Latheticocarcinus schlueteri, Latheticocarcinus shapiroi, Latheticocarcinus spinigus, Latheticocarcinus transiens, Metahomola atlantica
Type specimen: USNM 32058, a carapace. Its type locality is Eastern Corson County, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota.
Distribution: found only at Eastern Corson County
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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