Cretacoranina testacea Rathbun 1926 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae

Belongs to Cretacoranina according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Cretacoranina australis, Cretacoranina denisae, Cretacoranina fritschi, Cretacoranina punctata, Cretacoranina schloenbachi, Cretacoranina trechmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dave Weeks place, Coon Creek, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Ripley Formation of Tennessee

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (3: Delaware, Mississippi, mississippi collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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