Latheticocarcinus Bishop 1988 (crab)

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, Homoliformis, Homolochunia, Homologenus, Homolomannia, Homolopsis, Hoplitocarcinus, Lamoha, Latreillopsis, Lignihomola, Londinimola, Moloha, Navarrahomola, Nogarhomola, Paromola, Paromolopsis, Prohomola, Yaldwynopsis, Zygastrocarcinus

Subtaxa: Latheticocarcinus adelphinus Latheticocarcinus affinis Latheticocarcinus affinusdup Latheticocarcinus atlanticus Latheticocarcinus brevis Latheticocarcinus brevisdup Latheticocarcinus brightoni Latheticocarcinus centurialis Latheticocarcinus declinatus Latheticocarcinus dispar Latheticocarcinus italicus Latheticocarcinus ludvigseni Latheticocarcinus pikeae Latheticocarcinus punctatus Latheticocarcinus schlueteri Latheticocarcinus shapiroi Latheticocarcinus spinigus Latheticocarcinus transiens Metahomola atlantica

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Type: Latheticocarcinus shapiroi

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 (5: Delaware, South Dakota, mississippi)

Total: 20 collections including 22 occurrences

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