Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cenomanocarcinidae

Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, L. M. Baltzly, O. A. Bennett, A. R. Jones, F. F. Mathias, K. L. Weaver and S. L. Yost. 2013. New and previously known decapod crustaceans from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey and Delaware, USA. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 39:7-37

Belongs to Cenomanocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2016

See also Feldmann et al. 2013 and Karasawa et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Cenomanocarcinus armatus, Cenomanocarcinus beardi, Cenomanocarcinus boedekeri, Cenomanocarcinus cantabricus, Cenomanocarcinus carabus, Cenomanocarcinus cookseyi, Cenomanocarcinus dissimilis, Cenomanocarcinus hierosolymitanus, Cenomanocarcinus inflatus, Cenomanocarcinus multituberculatus, Cenomanocarcinus nammourensis, Cenomanocarcinus oklahomensis, Cenomanocarcinus renfroae, Cenomanocarcinus siouxensis, Cenomanocarcinus tenuicarinatus, Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni

Type specimen: NJSM 23309, a carapace. Its type locality is Merchantville/Marshalltown spoil piles, N side of C&D Canal, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in Delaware.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Merchantville/Marshalltown spoil piles, N side of C&D Canal

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