Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Alternative combinations: Cancer (Romaleon) granti, Cancer granti
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1932. A new species of Cancer from the Pliocene of the Los Angeles basin. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 22(1):19
Belongs to Metacarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Nations 1975, Rathbun 1932 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000
Sister taxa: Cancer (Metacarcinus) magister, Metacarcinus anthonyi, Metacarcinus danai, Metacarcinus davidi, Metacarcinus goederti, Metacarcinus gracilis, Metacarcinus izumoensis, Metacarcinus jenniferae, Metacarcinus magister, Metacarcinus minutoserratus, Metacarcinus novaezelandiae, Metacarcinus starri, Metacarcinus starridup, Metacarcinus tenax
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well, which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Pico Formation of California
Distribution: found only at UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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