Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160
Belongs to Necronectes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Rathbun 1935 and Schweitzer et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Necronectes batalleri, Necronectes beaumonti, Necronectes collinsi, Necronectes iranensis, Necronectes nodosa, Necronectes nodosus, Necronectes proavita, Necronectes proavitus, Necronectes schafferi, Necronectes summus, Necronectes tajinensis, Necronectes vicksburgensis, Necronectes vidalianus
Type specimen: Its type locality is A float about 100 ft S of Calvert Beach, probably from "zone 17", which is in a Serravallian marine horizon in the Choptank Formation of Maryland
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (2: Maryland collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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